NIS user not being added to NIS group
- by Brian
I have set up a NIS server and several NIS clients. I have a user and a group on the NIS server like so:
/etc/passwd: myself:x:5000:5000:,,,:/home/myself:/bin/bash
/etc/group: fishy:x:3001:otheruser,etc,myself,moreppl
I imported the users and groups on the NIS client by adding +:::::: to /etc/passwd and +::: to /etc/group.
I can log in to the NIS client, but when I run groups, fishy is not listed. But getent group fishy shows that it was imported correctly and lists me as a member. And if I do sudo su - myself, then suddenly groups says I am in the group!
I also had nscd installed, and the groups worked correctly for a while. It seemed like after being logged in for a while, I would silently be dropped out of the group. If I restarted nscd and logged in again, then the groups worked correctly...for a while.
There are no UID or GID conflicts with local users or groups.
Update: Contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf:
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
hosts: files nis dns
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: nis
aliases: nis files
