NIS client doesn't recognize user names

ahz10 · 09-02-2005, 11:23 AM

My NIS client doesn't recognize user names. Files that belong to NIS users are shown by their numeric id, not the account name.

When I do "chown davids davids" I get "invalid user."

However, running "ypcat passwd | grep davids" shows davids exists.

This happens on one client. I checked another client, which is fine, so the server should be OK.

clperrin · 09-02-2005, 06:04 PM

It "sounds" like your NIS client is checking local settings before NIS settings for user accounts. This can probably be edited to suit your needs in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file.

ahz10 · 01-10-2007, 12:22 PM

I can't remember what happened a year ago, but here I was again with the same problem on Fedora Core 6. Modifying nsswitch.conf and a reboot did the trick. Thanks!