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Jerry Feldman wrote: >> Does 'genent passwd' also correctly display the users? > yes. 'getent passwd' displays the 4 password lines correctly. > As I mentioned 'ypcat passwd ' was able to display all the password > entries correctly. Additionally, 'ypmatch gaf passwd Right, but ypcat and getent are different. On my machine, ypcat only prints what's in the NIS database, while getent returns the combination of /etc/passwd and NIS. If nsswitch doesn't have the nis lines, then ypcat would still work as you said, but you wouldn't see your NIS users in 'getent' output. >> If not, check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file, and make sure there is >> entries that look like this: >> >> passwd: files nis >> shadow: files nis >> group: files nis > /etc/nsswitch is correct. > > My next step is to write a short C program to use one of the getpwent(3) > and getpwnam(3) functions. You might also check your PAM configuration. Make sure pam_unix.so is in all the following entries: auth account password session Matt -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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