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smed

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Registered: 2013-06-22

Posts: 3

[SOLVED]NIS user does not exist

I have been using NIS for networked users for three years without any problems until a few days ago when one of my client machines suddenly stopped working. I'm no longer able to login to any NIS users from this client machine, and I get this error in response.

$ su mynisuser
su: user mynisuser does not exist

logging in this way from a different client machine works perfectly fine. Both the working and non-working clients fail the same yptest but pass everything else.

Test 3: yp_match
WARNING: No such key in map (Map passwd.byname, key nobody)

Both machines are running the same version of yp-tools (2.14-4) and ypbind-mt (1.38-1). I've looked through the /var/log/messages file on the NIS server but I don't see anything that's relevant to this problem. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by smed (2018-05-16 19:52:47)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [SOLVED]NIS user does not exist

Did you read the news on the Arch homepage?

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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smed

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Registered: 2013-06-22

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED]NIS user does not exist

Sorry and thank you.

This was solved by,

 pacman -S libnss_nis