cannot login ???

[Bob Edwards]

J ji wrote:
> 
> hello everybody,
> I am a system admin, and have a weird problem in my lab for 1 user as of
> now. She cannot login to her account, it seems to hang forever, but she can
> ssh or rlogin or telnet into her account from somebody else's machine/accnt.
> I just couldnt figure out what the problem could be.The server is set up as
> a nis+ server, the machine is redhat linux os. Could you guys please help me
> with this one .
> Thankyou in advance.
> regards,
> Jeetu

When your user logs in using ssh or telnet etc. what does she get when she
types "nisdefaults"? Could be that her credentials on the NIS+ server are
not correct.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.