Re: NIS and su

[Adam VanderHook <avanderhook_(_at_)_capitol-college_(_dot_)_edu>]

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:40:30PM -0700, crawler_(_at_)_engineering_(_dot_)_ucsb_(_dot_)_edu wrote:
> Hello,

Hi.

[snip]
> I have the following setting in the NIS client's /etc/master.passwd file
> 
> +:*::::::::
> 
> And I have the following setting in the NIS client's /etc/group file
> 
> +:*::

Looks good.

> The problem that I'm having is that a user who's in the wheel group can't su to 
> root from a NIS client--complains that the user is not in a right group.  That 
> same user is already in the wheel group from the NIS server database /etc/group. 
> 
> But if I add that user to the wheel group in the NIS client's /etc/group, then 
> that user is able to su.  

What does /etc/yp/group say about the user?  Make sure the user is in
the wheel group there on the server, then go to /var/yp on the server
and run 'make'.  Once that finishes try on the client again.

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Adam VanderHook
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