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Network Information Services (NIS and NIS+) Guide

Troubleshooting User Problems

This section describes NIS+ problems that a typical user might encounter.

Symptoms

User Cannot Log In

There are many possible reasons for a user being unable to log in:

Solution

Edit the /etc/security/login.cfg, /etc/security/user, and /usr/lib/security/methods.cfg configuration files. (Add them, if they do not exist.) The following lines must exist (and not be commented) in both files:

NISPLUS
  program=/usr/lib/security/NISPLUS

User Cannot Log In Using New Password

Symptoms

Users who recently changed their password are unable to log in at all, or are able to log in on some machines but not on others.

Possible Causes

User Cannot Remote Log In to Remote Domain

Symptoms

User tries to rlogin to a machine in some other domain and is refused with a "Permission denied" type error message.

Possible Cause

To rlogin to a machine in another domain, a user must have LOCAL credentials in that domain.

Diagnosis

Run nismatchusername.domainname.cred.org_dir in the other domain to see if the user has a LOCAL credential in that domain.

Solutions

User Cannot Change Password

The most common cause of a user being unable to change passwords is that the user is mistyping (or has forgotten) the old password.

Other possible causes:


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