Thanks for the many replies. Below I summarized a few.
The first problem was that comsat didn't work for 8 char names.
From: Margaret.Kapica@Corp.Sun.COM (Margaret Kapica)
1) this bug still exists in 4.1.1; bugid 1055886
From: canuck@rice.edu (Mike Pearlman)
The comsat bug has been fixed contact Sun and ask for patch 100272-02.
The second problem was that merely updating the yp group map didn't
affect what groups users were in.
From: stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - Consultant)
(2) build the netid NIS map. your group info is taken from netid.byname,
not group.byname when you login (this makes login much faster
since it doesn't have to do a union-find on the group map)
netid contains a line for each user, with all group memberships
for that user. if you do
# cd /var/yp ; make group
you won't build the netid map; you have to do "make" or "make netid"
to get it built.
From: pbg@cs.brown.edu (Peter Galvin)
The second
problem is a result of login groups being extracted from the "netid"
yp database, not the groups database. Change your yp makefile to
rebuild netid whenever group is rebuild. Here's a diff of our
Makefiles:
% diff Makefile Makefile.prev
374c374
< group: group.time netid.time
---
> group: group.time
Thanks all again,
Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil
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