shared groups (gids) and users (uids) must both be > 500 for any uid/gid that is < 500, the local group/user file is referenced (/etc/groups, /etc/passwd respectively).
I'll bet that you have gid's < 500 -Greg On 12-Nov-01 christopher j bottaro wrote: > a while a go i posted what i was trying to do and yall told me to use NIS. > so i got it set up and working (well, running at least). > > i shared my groups and passwd file, but out of the 5 users, only 2 are shared > properly to my NIS client. > > if i log onto my linux box thats running the NIS server and type "ls -l > /home", i get: > > drwx------ 31 cjb cjb 4096 Nov 11 22:45 cjb > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:40 configs > drwxrwx--- 6 root cvs 4096 Oct 31 17:43 cvsroot > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 12 16:43 ftp > drwx------ 3 guest guest 4096 Nov 11 22:46 guest > drwx------ 11 josh josh 4096 Nov 9 17:13 josh > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Oct 2 09:00 lost+found > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 23 22:33 root > drwx------ 9 saul saul 4096 Oct 30 16:57 saul > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 16 00:55 shared > drwx------ 5 terra terra 4096 Nov 8 23:23 terra > > if i log onto my linux box that is the NIS client and type "ls -l /home" i > get: > > drwx------ 31 cjb cjb 4096 Nov 11 22:45 cjb > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 12:40 configs > drwxrwx--- 6 root cvs 4096 Oct 31 17:43 cvsroot > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 12 16:43 ftp > drwx------ 3 testuser testuser 4096 Nov 11 22:46 guest > drwx------ 11 terra terra 4096 Nov 9 17:13 josh > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Oct 2 09:00 lost+found > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 23 22:33 root > drwx------ 9 saul saul 4096 Oct 30 16:57 saul > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 16 00:55 shared > drwx------ 5 josh josh 4096 Nov 8 23:23 terra > > notice the dirs guest, josh, and terra have their owner/group messed up. > > what is wrong? why is it doing this? > > thanks for the help, > christopher > > P.S. the home partition is mounted directly into the filesystem by the > machine running the NIS server. the NIS client machine mounts /home via NFS. > > P.S.S. the NIS client machine's passwd file does not contain any entries 500 > and above. i.e. the client machine is accually reading user/group info over > NIS and not using its own passwd file. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Nov-01 Time: 16:40:53 You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. ---------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
