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I am having the same problem with my Red Hat 6.1 NIS client. I have changed
the lines in my nsswitch.conf file and I also changed my /etc/pam.d/login
file but I still can't seem to get the user include/exclude to work. Does
anyone have any suggestions???? Thanks,

Robert Anderson
The Ant Farm
323-850-0700

Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> craig Armour <c.armour@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying to impliment NIS under linux.  Currently, the server machine
> > I'm using is a RH6.0 box and the client machines are RH6.1
>
> > on the Client machines I have set in the nsswitch file the following
> > settings for passwd: group: etc...
>
> > passwd:     compat
> > shadow:     compat
> > group:      compat
>
> > passwd_compat: nis
> > group_compat: nis
> > shadow_compat: nis
>
> > I have added the lines ( or similar )
>
> > +::::::
> > -fred
> > +craig:::::/home2/craig:
> > +
>
> > to my /etc/passwd file and yet the user includes/excludes still seem to
> > fail to work.
>
> RedHat uses pam_pwdb/libpwdb. This PAM module/library can not handle
> this and ignores /etc/nsswitch.conf.
>
>   Thorsten
>
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