The suggestions about the NIS min uid are probably spot on. There's also a
chance that the nscd is causing problems here. As we moved to sl42, I had
problems which seemed similar to yours. Rather than spending much time
debugging, I disabled nscd on my sl42 machines.

-Jan

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Kuo Kan Liang wrote:

> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 03:11:38 +0800
> From: Kuo Kan Liang <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [SL] NIS weird behavior
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a cluster on which I set up NIS and NFS. For the first three user 
> accounts I set up, there is no problem using them. But later I added a 
> few new users, and they could not login to any of the NIS client. They 
> complained that there are not these users. However, if I use ypcat, 
> yptest, ypwhich, etc., on each client thest tests all pass. If I list 
> the contents of the NFSed /home directory, I found that the system could 
> not recognize the uid and gid of these new accounts. That is, it seems 
> that NIS setup is fine, but somehow the system does not use those 
> informations. I am totally exausted by this problem now. Can someone 
> give me some clues? Thanks in advance!
> 
>