[NTLUG:Discuss] Distributing users via NIS

[Greg Edwards]

Minh Duong wrote:
> I have set up a NIS master and a NIS slave but can't
> seem to get new user that were created on the master
> to distribute to the slave.  I create the new user on
> the master server and then push it to slave.  I can
> ypcat to see the new users on both the master and
> slave but when I try to login as the user on the
> slave, it says that no user exists.  Am I missing
> something simple? Thanks in advance.
> 

Are you running ypbind (client daemon) on the slave?  A master, or 
slave, manages the NIS maps while a client uses the maps.

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