redhat 9 and NIS

I having a problem with NIS, wanted to know has anyone seen this issue
before? This happens when i login a NIS client.

id: cannot find name for user ID 120
id: cannot find name for user ID 120
[I have no name!@box01 testuser]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:57:31 -0800, c0re wrote:

> I having a problem with NIS, wanted to know has anyone seen this issue
> before? This happens when i login a NIS client.
>
> id: cannot find name for user ID 120
> id: cannot find name for user ID 120
> [I have no name!@box01 testuser]

Well it's possibly an improvement on "you don't exist, go away"

This usually means that the passwd.byname map is fine but the passwd.byuid
map is missing or broken.

Regards, Ian