Please Help - NIS - Old School

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Hi Peeps,

Just started working somewhere, and they use NIS for directory services. I need to add myself as a user so I can log into all the machines, but it just doesn't seem to work for love nor money! :(

I have added the user, via useradd xxxxx (and added them to all the right groups as well)

And then gone to the /var/wp directory and run 'make'

But i still can't sshin at all :(. apart from on machine where I get the MOTD and it boots me :(

I'm going mad on this one! Many internets up for grabs here.
 
Shudder indeed, it's awful.

As far as I can tell, people don't have mounted homedirs on nfs, the nis clients seems to make the homedirs for people..

what a pain! I've recreated my user on the NIS server which seems to have largely sorted the problem, but still it's happening elsewhere!
 
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