Re: [Sheflug] gnome - nis - debian problem

[Dave Mitchell <davem [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:05:27PM +0000, Alan Dawson wrote:
> Quoting Alan Dawson <aland [at] burngreave.net>:
> > GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: No such user 500.
> > rep: function returned both exception and value, or neither!
(snip)
>  ..  any NIS guru's in the house?  Or is it back to RTFM?

It's a long time since I've used NIS, and never under linux, but things to
check:

1) that the passwd entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf includes nis;

2) that 'ypcat -k passwd.byuid' gives out a sensible listing,

3) that 'ypmatch 500 passwd.byuid' gives an entry.

If all those work, then I dunno.

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