some nis users cannot login at the console DU4.0e/f

[Frank Winter <winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

we have got a strange behavior at (only some of our) workstations.

The situation is that some(only some) (NIS) users cannot login at the

local x console of some workstations.

Lets say user TEST cannot login into ws17 local x console. He gets the

error message: Login incorrect. (As if the password was wrong)

But this users can log into ws30 local x console. Both ws17 and ws30 are

NIS-clients to the same NIS-MASTER server. And "ypcat passwd" brings

the same result at both machines.

But now the stranges thing: User TEST can still telnet into ws17.

My question is, is there a file, which says who can log into

x at ws17, or something like that. I am very confused.

I wrote a script with compares every file in the /etc directory

of both machines (ws17 and ws30) and printed out the differences.

But I didn't find something related.

Configuration:

DU4.0e on clients, DU4.0f on server.

Clients: Digital Personal Workstation 600au

Server: Digital AlphaServer 800 5/500

Bye for now.

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   Frank Winter
   PHYSnet, University of Hamburg, Germany
   winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx