Problems with login after updating to HPUX11

[Patrick Schuh]

Hey colleques,

i have updated a C3600 workstation from HPUX 10.20 to HPUX11.11 . No there??s the problem that the HOME-Variable is not set at the login.

Only when root logs in the Variable is set correct. When other users log in (NIS) the Variable is empty.

Any solutions?

Patrick

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,
how is you /etc/profile variable $HOME ?

HTH,
Massimo

[Bill Douglass]

HOME is set by login, based on the user's home directory in the passwd file.

Since NIS users are not getting this set correctly, I suspect a problem with the NIS passwd map.

Try doing

ypcat -k passwd.byname

and verify that you are seeing the correct entries for your NIS users.

Check your nsswitch.conf file as well. It should read

passwd: file nis

[Elena Leontieva]

May consider PHCO_27374 patch.

[Helen French]

Check the global and local passwd files. Those will have the $HOME directory entry for all users. If you are using NFS automount HOME directories with NIS, check if those daemons are running and it's working properly. Check the /etc/auto_master file and it's configurations. Also, check and see if it's only happening on NIS users?

The best option from moving to 10.20 to 11.X was a cold install.

[Steven E. Protter]

Another reason why cold install is better.

The home directory is supposed to be in the /etc/passwd file.

I'd run a consistency check /etc/passwd
pwck

Fix problems with the users involved.

You should not have to explicitly set $HOME in /etc/profile

SEP