Hi Peter

It is as followings

passwd:     compat files nis
shadow:     compat files nis
group:      files nis


> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Yue Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> I have a host installed with NIS+ client. There is a user named jsn in
>> NIS server.  His login shell is /bin/true. So he can not log on my
>> host by default. Now I wanna grant his access so I added following
>> line into /etc/passwd.
>>
>> +jsn::::::/bin/tcsh
>>
>> However, sometimes he is still unable to log on my host. To debug, I
>> wrote a test binary using getpwnam to grab the user info and then
>> check pw->pw_shell. To my surprise, the value for pw_shell is rather
>> unstable. Sometimes it is /bin/tcsh (login is ok), sometimes it is
>> /bin/true (login fails).
>>
>> How can I dig deeper on this weird issue? This issue almost drives me crazy.
>
> What does the passwd entry in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file look like?
>
> (Are you using compat?)
>
> --
> -Peter Tribble
> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
>
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