problem with NIS user

[Binu_5]

Hi All

In our setup we have one NIS master server and 4 NIS slave server ..The problem is I could not login using NIS user ...Local user works fine ..
NIS user gets authenticated but hangs at this point


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Please help

-Binu

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Binu,

Follow the troubleshooting steps on this thread, might be able to fix your problem,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1040387

Regards,

Jaime.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Try ypmake on the server.

SEP

[Dave Olker]

Hi Binu,

The fact that your user is getting past the authentication phase indicates that NIS is at least working well enough to retrieve the user information from the backend database. After that point, I don't believe NIS is involved.

For the user that stops responding, is their home directory NFS-mounted by any chance? Are they also configured to use the Korn Shell? This looks an awful lot like the classic "ksh .sh_history file lock stops responding" scenario.

If this is an NFS-mounted home directory situation then you might be seeing an NFS file locking problem and not an NIS problem. If that's the case let me know and I can offer some help with troubleshooting the NFS file locking issue.

Regards,

Dave