nis and passwd /group file problem

[K R Prayag]

I have recently migrated our NIs server vrom a hpux 10.20 to 11(64bit OS). I have used NIS only and on the master i am having a very intermittent problem when clearcase users are trying to do the build it inconsistently says login information could'nt be found.

if i give the below command
/usr/contrib/bin passwd it retrieves the correct information.

Any help is highly appreciated.

[Peter Nikitka]

Hello,

did the hostname of the NIS-Server change?
If so, did you force creation of all NIS-maps (which contain the hostname of the master)?

Did you force an update of all other NIS-servers with the new maps?

Try a 'ypwhich -m' on all clients to get the name of the NIS-master.

Try 'ypmatch passwd' on all hosts and look if you get the results of the user.
Perhaps the NIS-Domain is not bound, at all

mfG Peter

[Kevin Wright]

try a ypmatch on the user in the passwd map
ypmatch -k user passwd to see if it can find the username.

[K R Prayag]

Peter/Kevin,

Thanks for you kind reply.
I have tried that and it comes back with the correct results.
The problem i have is on the Master itself.
As the Master is also a client of its own NIS domain. I have done some more digging and i feel there is nis beakage happening. As if i type 'id ' it returns me the correct results and then 'id nisuser' says could't find the user. after a couple of minutes if i try 'id nisuser' it bring backs the correct results.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Kamesh.