On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:34:25AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > The RedHat server is also running shadow password which I know can cause > trouble for NIS.
Seems like you already said it to me. I'm no NIS expert, but I'd double-check the maps that it's pushing out to the client. Make sure that the shadow passwords aren't pushing something stupid for the password, like ! or *. Anything in the relevant log files? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier, TD12, SKY Tel: 613-765-4699 (ESN: 39-54699) Optical Networks, Nortel Networks, SDE Pegasus "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925 Nortel Linux User's Group Ottawa: (internal) http://nlug.ca.nortel.com