[WBEL-users] NIS

Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu
Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:02:38 -0500


Denis Croombs wrote:
> I am using NIS on some thin client servers which works untill we
> change/reset the password then the user can login to the main NIS server but
> not the clients is there an easy way of updating the client server systems ?

Are you running nscd on the clients?  (It does client-side caching of 
items, including user passwords).

*how* are you change/resetting passwords?  Via yppasswd (good)?  Some 
other mechanism (which doesn't necessarily update NIS)?

-- Rex