On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:48:05PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > There are no longer usernames on a single machine, but the UID's are ok. > NIS ist still living. I can telnet to a third machine on our net where > everything is fine. > > Which services is responsible for showing usernames?
It's looked up in the user database. /etc/nsswitch.conf has an effect on this, but it normally looks for the uid first in /etc/passwd, then in the passwd.byuid NIS map. NIS may be alive, but it may not be working... What does `ypcat passwd.byuid` say? -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
