Examining NIS+ Tables
Some NIS+ problems will be related to information missing from tables.
You can examine the contents of tables with a variety of commands.
niscat will output the entire contents of a table for you:
%% niscat passwd.org_dir
You can also examine the object properties of a table:
%% niscat -o passwd.org_dir
This can be very helpful, because it will show you if a table has
weird permissions which may be restricting access.
nismatch can also be used to find things in a table:
%% nismatch -h joe passwd.org_dir
niscat and nismatch both directly access the NIS+ tables. getent, on
the other hand, will look up tables in the order defined in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf. A typical getent command would be the following:
%% getent passwd joe
This would look up the user joe in passwd. In a typical environment,
it would access files first, and then NIS+. If you find that getent
and nismatch give you different answers, you should look at your
nsswitch.conf. Perhaps a naming service that is listed earlier in your
nsswitch.conf has different info. Alternatively, maybe NIS+ is not
listed at all in your nsswitch.conf.
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