Hello!

I'm attempting to add a new user name at work. We have a NIS server administering host names
and users. I've run "adduser <new_user_name>", run "passwd" to set its initial password,
copied the added lines from /etc/passwd (on the NIS server) to the input files at /var/yp/etc
(and checked that the Makefile really uses the directory "/var/yp/etc" as input), run "make passwd"
in the "/var/yp" directory, stopped and restarted the "ypserv", also stopped and restarted
"ypbind" on another server. I also removed the new user lines from the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
files on the NIS server.


When I run "su <new_user_name>" on the NIS server, I can login OK and "whoami"
shows <new_user_name>. However, on other servers, even if I see the new user line in the
output of "ypcat passwd", an attempt to "su <new_user_name>" results in password not being
recognized.



the "passwd" lines in the /etc/nsswitch file (of the other, non NIS server) are:


What am I doing wrong?

TIA!

Is there an entry for the user in /var/yp/etc/shadow with the hashed password?

Yes, there is.

I only run "make passwd", should I also run "make shadow" or the "shadow" file
contents are taken into account by "make passwd" command? Inside the "Makefile"
I see "passwd" and "shadow" listed on the same line with other results to make.

TIA!

Why won't you just run make without any arguments? It will update only those maps where the source is newer.

Or

Thanks to all replies,
we finally figured out (well, worked around) the problem: it seems
manual adding of lines with new username in /var/yp/etc/passwd and /var/yp/etc/shadow was the problem:
after creating a slightly differently named user name (the user is OK with it) and copying
the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow to /var/yp/etc and rerunning "make passwd", restarting the "ypserv" on the NIS server
and restarting the "ypbind" on other servers we finally can "su new_user_name1".

Now we have a relatively smaller problem of "su new_user_name1" doesn't start at new $HOME directory (but "echo $HOME"
produces it correctly and "cd" without arguments also gets to $HOME), hope to solve it soon.

The dash emulates a login and changes directory.

Try also
The latter emulates a login.