From: Yar Baily (msmabc@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 17:33:55 EDT
Many thanks to all of you :
Firmin, Julie <Julie.Firmin@capita.co.uk>
Beavers, Reginald <RBeavers@seisint.com>
Luc I. Suryo <luc@suryo.com>
Galen Johnson <gjohnson@trantor.org>
Trevor Ellermann <trevor@ece.arizona.edu>
Simon Millard <simon.g.millard@ntlworld.com>
Larry Ledwick <emerfile@denverlink.com>
Jay Lessert <jayl@accelerant.net>
John Leadeham <jl@lammtarra.fslife.co.uk>
The fix was what Reginald Beavers mentioned in his response. In fact, I had
imported files to PC and used Excel and Word for manipulating them based on
various columns. Al though, I saved them as text files in the end, there
were some extra ^M characters left in the files. So, I opened the files
using vi editor and use :set list command to see the extra characters. After
confirming their existence, I used dos2unix command to remove those extra
characters. After that I used them as NIS data resource files and this time
it worked fine.
Original Message :
>It looks like I have shot myself in the foot -
>I have NIS running on Solaris 8 - Sparc environment. I had thousands of
>inactive users in the Passwd file so I hand edited the Passwd and Shadow
>files and ran Make. Well, it did create all the maps from new files BUT
>since then it does not allow anyone to login saying " Invalid user shell,
>login rejected "
>Prior to making changes, I saved all the files in /var/yp/ directory. Now,
>after not being successful in implementing the new files, I have put the
>original saved files there but still even they are not working now and it
>gives me the same error message.
>I need immediate help please - the whole system is down !!!!!
>Thanks
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