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Simeon Harwood
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‎05-07-2006 10:27 PM

‎05-07-2006 10:27 PM

su: Unknown id: (NIS)

Morning all,
Another random problem for discussion....
We are using NIS (not NIS+ or anything fancy like that), and we have added a new user to the passowrd file. From a client we can ypcat the pasword file and see the user, but if we try to su - to the user we get the follwoing message: -
su: Unknown id:
Anyone got any ideas?

Ta,
Sime.
You never had this problem with a pencil and paper!
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Simeon Harwood
Regular Advisor

‎05-07-2006 10:52 PM

‎05-07-2006 10:52 PM

Re: su: Unknown id: (NIS)

Problem solved now. I needed to make the entry in the netgroup file too.

You never had this problem with a pencil and paper!
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