NIS Authentication/Adding user question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 07:31:10PM -0700, Michael Yang wrote:
>   Thank you for your reply. I have updated /var/yp/master.passwd file and run make afterwards. Now when I try to logon from one of the linux stations via GUI logon, the screen flashes , then come back to login screen. But i can ssh in to the server with new account credential. 
>    
>   I think when the account was created, I probably missed some X profile setup. Anyone has idea about how I can check what is missing.

X won't run if the users home dir isn't found or isn't writeable.
Access to /tmp is important too.

Maybe login as that user on the console and run startx and see if that
works.  Might give better error messages if nothing else.

Len Sorensen
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