I’ve been looking for a storage solution for the last few weeks to replace the 820 GB of failing hard drives that currently hold all of my important data. The drives currently reside in my desktop computer, with one of the 250 GB drives failing after about 18 months of use. (more…)
I spent a few more minutes on Google tonight looking for reasons why NIS might not work on my home network. I’m still not sure why it didn’t work but I did get it working. On my Fedora 5 client I changed /etc/nsswitch.conf to contain the lines:
passwd: compat
shadow: compat
group: compat
Those lines previously contained:
passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis
I don’t think making this change was the fix, but I can go back and change it to “files nis” again to see if it breaks. I think the real fix was executing yppasswd [username] as root on the NIS client machine. After changing the password I was able to su to that user from another user account and log in from gdm.
I’m glad that battle is over. Now I just have to remember to change the NIS password of user accounts in the future. The next task is to set up an NFS home directory for NIS clients.
