Sorry for the lack of info... The server is RedHat 9 and all the clients are Enterprise Workstations. I haven't edited any files, just followed the standard directions for NIS setup. If I do 'ypcat group' on any of the clients or server, I get no output. Doing a grep user /etc/group, I get: users:x:100: rpcuser:x:29: I don't have an entry for 'users' on any client in /etc/group. How can I get this one machine (RedHat 9) to recognize GID 100 as users without adding it to /etc/group? Essentially, I want it to be identical to all the other machines... Ryan -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lasalle@xxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 2:56 PM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Group ownership problem Quoting Ryan Golhar <golharam@xxxxxxxxx>: > I've got multiple machines all authenticating via NIS from one > machine. All the machines recognize the users in a group called > 'users'. I see an entry for this group in /etc/group on the NIS > server, however I don't see the entry on any of the NIS clients. > > When I do an 'ls' on the home diretories on an NIS client, they all > recognize the home directories belonging to the group 'users'. > > On one particular machine, the users can log on to, but the group > 'users' isn't displayed. The group ID of 100 is displayed instead. I > can't figure out why this one machine doesn't recognize the group > properly. Any help would be appreciated... > > Ryan > the user group is a system group (read: installed by default USUALLY depending on the system). It is also generally not exported by the NIS group map (unless you edited /var/yp/Makefile, which I get a feeling you did not). To verify this, try 'ypcat group | grep user' on one of your NIS clients. Then try 'grep user /etc/group'. If I have read your mind correctly so far (not knowing what OS the NIS server is running nor any of the clients), you should notice that the client which displays GID 100 doesn't have the user group in /etc/group. Adding it will make that pesky 100 change to user. hth, Jurvis LaSalle -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
