Posts Tagged ‘NIS’

nsswitch compat mode not compatible with our dev, dev1, dev2 “extended” group

At work, we have many Unix and Linux systems, so we use NIS to coordinate the authentication and authorization of users.  One of our Unix groups has so many members that the older Unix systems can’t “see” them all.  So, we split up the membership into a set of entries in the /etc/group file that […]