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