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NIS problem with non-root user
Name: sébastien castan Date: October 10, 2002 at 23:43:48 Pacific OS: N/A CPU/Ram: Athlon 1600+ / 512Mo
Comment:
My workstation was a Mdk8.2 working fine, I just moved it to 9.0. And now I've a problem with NIS service :
Non-root user can log into the system but have not rights on their own file, Example : user "test" can log, but if he looks at his own files in his home dir he sees the owner as 502 and not "test". KDE doesn't understand that user "test"'s UID is 502....
This lead to a serious problem loading KDE3 : trying to write .DCOPserverxxx file to user's home dir fails... so I can't get any user (except root) to launch KDE.
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