Hello all,
Well that was a pleasantly quick fix to a problem. Thank you all.
The problem was that a certain user was not gaining access to a file
that was only accessable to a group called REU even though REU was
listed in the NIS group map as his secondary group.
The answer can be best summed up by Michael Sullivan who said:
>You need to rebuild the NIS maps with:
> cd /var/yp
> make
>
>You probably did "make group" when you added jim to REU, but that is
>insufficient, the netid maps also need to be made.
Bingo, once I just ran make rather than 'make group' all went well.
Thanks to all who responded including:
Mark Plotnick
Emmett Hogan
Jim Hendrickson
Gregory Higgins
Jim Mattson
Hal Stern
Jacques Beigbeder
Mike Raffety
Mike Sullivan
Barry Margolin
Matthew Donaldson
Maurizio Codogno
Dunstan Vavasour
Dave Mitchell
Kevin McElearney
Ron Stanonik
Chuck Yerkes
Stephan Kowal
Rich Schultz
Jan Marquardt
402 Space Sciences
Ithaca NY 14853
jan@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu
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