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From: Jim.Cottrell@durham.ac.uk (Technician)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: YP (now NIS) oddity.
Keywords: Software
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Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 348, message 2

Following weirdness just hit me.  Playing with the password file, created
a userid, then ypmake passwd, all is AOK, then remove user from passwd
file, re-make passwd and .... ypmatch user passwd still finds the user,
ypcat passwd | grep user ... does NOT find user.  This holds true for the
NIS server and a slave server, and a pure client.  All are running 4.1,
the NIS server is a 4/330, the client/slave are SUN 3's.

Under most circumstances this would not be much of a problem, depending
upon how long it persists (20 mins so far), but it makes what I'm doing a
real problem.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jim.Cottrell (software technician) University of Durham UK.
Jim.Cottrell@uk.ac.durham