Can't add a user, exists. Can't delete does not exist.

[Dave Walker]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:

>On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:53:00AM -0400, Dave Walker wrote:
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>>What is ypcat, how do I install it.  No I am not running NIS.  I am 
>>running NFS for sharing /home.
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>You'll know that NIS is installed if typing 'ypcat passwd'
>at the command line does anything. Does it?
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>If you don't have NIS installed, you needn't install it now;
>I was just trying to figure out if NIS was the problem.
>
>NIS allows you to share various files amongst multiple
>machines, so that changing the file in one place changes it
>in all the others. It's commonly used to share the
>/etc/passwd file so that if a user has the right to read a
>file on one machine, he has the right to view it on all the
>others.
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>Let us know if ypcat works for you. If it does, then NIS is
>installed. It's just a wild guess, but it's the best I've
>got for now.
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 From the quoted part, no I am not running NIS.  I know it can be used 
for the sharing of one file like that, and I am thinking about setting 
it up on test systems later, but it is not the root of this problem.

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dave