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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 >> [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ >> Fermilab Scientific Computing Division, Scientific Computing Services >> Quad. >> Grid and Cloud Services Dept., Associate Dept. Head for Cloud Computing > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm, Ph.D (630) 840-8525 [log in to unmask] http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Scientific Computing Division, Scientific Computing Services Quad. Grid and Cloud Services Dept., Associate Dept. Head for Cloud Computing