Nis problem on hpux 11.00

[tecnomatix]

Hi All,
Its seems like a strange problem in my NIS system.
I can "su" to a user but cannot see other users from that shell:
panther:/ [root] > su - ido
(ido) panther:21=>
(ido) panther:23=> ypcat passwd | grep alexsh
alexsh:msTMIe.8TCAhk:2079:99:Alex Shprukh:/usr/staff/alexsh:/bin/csh
(ido) panther:24=> ls ~alexsh
Unknown user: alexsh.

[Ravi_8 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

when i looged in using my nis id. i use 'who' command to see other users who logged on to the machine.

$finger shows info about user

[tecnomatix]

i don't want to see other users, I want to see their home-directory by ls ~alexsh...

Thanks anyway for your quick respond

[tecnomatix]

the problem was solved by adding "+" to /etc/passwd & /etc/group

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

+:: entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/group is a must for all NIS users to login to NIS client.

if don't want to allow all users, but only the user alex
then +alex in /etc/passwd file will do.