What login method is failing? Login from console?  ssh? other?
does /var/log/secure give you anything as far as error messages?  It 
should.  Is kerberos involved here or do you have hashed
passwords in the NIS map?

Steve Timm



On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, Capehart, William J wrote:

> Steve:
>
> Normally I do all the pieces normally but I followed your guidance:
>
> authconfig  --enablenis  ‹nisserver=(server.name.goes.here)
> ‹nisdomain=(mydomain) --update
>
>
> As root, id on one of my test accounts worked.
> As root, su on the same test account worked.
> ³nis² has indeed been through the /etc/nsswitch.conf file all along.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> On 8/1/14, 14:51 MDT, "Steven Timm" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> did you go into the system setup utility and enable NIS authentication?
>> (or use authconfig from the command line).  That's the best way
>> to ensure that PAM is configured correctly to use NIS and that's likely
>> the problem.
>>
>> (does "id" on a yp user name work?)
>> (does "su" to a yp user name work?)
>> does "nis" appear in /etc/nsswitch.conf? (setup will do that).
>>
>> Steve Timm
>>
>>
>> \On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, Capehart, William J wrote:
>>
>>> We are in the process of migrating to SL 6.5 from Mandriva and things
>>> have
>>> been manageable until (of course) today.
>>>
>>> The NIS server is still under Mandriva (yp-serve is 2.22, ypbind is
>>> 1.29.91)
>>>
>>> On the client to be in SL 6.5 the ypbind is 1.20.4.
>>>
>>> NIS works on the fellow Mandriva machine clients but when used on the SL
>>> machine
>>>
>>> The username and groups get carried over and match the uids
>>>
>>> ypcat gives the correct responses for the arguments passwd and groups
>>>
>>> BUT
>>>
>>> I get permission denied errors when logging in.  (That is sort of a deal
>>> breaker).
>>>
>>> Beyond this point is there any troubleshooting advise here?
>>>
>>> Thanks Much,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>

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