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Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but here goes. I have a RH8.0 NIS+ client in a Solaris 8 NIS+ domain. I am having a problem with one user logging onto the RH box - I get the following:
sol8nis+_a:/home/usera[19] telnet rh8nis+_a
Trying rh8nis+_a
Connected to rh8nis+_a
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
Kernel 2.4.18-14 on an i686
login: usera
Password:
Last login: Thu Nov 20 09:47:05 from sol8nis+_a
And it just hangs until I log in as root from another window and kill the login process. I have examined the startup files from several different users (all are using the same centrally located startup files - .login .cshrc). I even verified that the user was correctly authenticated to the NIS+ domain:
sol8nis+_a:/home/usera[1] nisdefaults
Principal Name : usera.domain.com.
Domain Name : domain.com.
Host Name : sol8nis+_a.domain.com.
Group Name :
Access Rights : ----rmcdr---r---
Time to live : 12:00:00
Search Path : domain.com.
Is there a config file, access file, or man page I need to read that someone could point me toward to try to troubleshoot this? Let me know if you need more information.
Does your user login without problems on other machines (eg the Solaris machine)? Check what his login shell is set to (make sure its not something like /dev/null and make sure it exists on the RH computer). Do the other users successfully login on this computer?
If you've got NIS+ working for all users but one then check that specific account out. Like the shell, expiry, and stuff like that. None of it should hang per se, but strange shells might.
I've only used NIS (and only a little at that) so I'm not sure what files you need to check other then your /etc/nsswitch.conf locally. I think all the packages should at least tell you their conf files from the man pages (ypbind, ypserv, portmapper).
Thanks for the help Archangel, but unfortunately this user does login fine to the other Solaris machines without any delay. What is odd is that all my users access the same centrally located .cshrc and .login files - that's why I had thought it might NIS+. The whole reason I started down this path was to allow this user to rsync between the Linux and Solaris boxes; in addition to rsync not working, rsh does not work as well - I think my problem is PAM, since that is the only form of authentication left. I will keep looking...thanks for your help, though.
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