Alex> Is anyone using NIS with hamm? I'm trying to set it to work Alex> against a Solaris NIS server and it doesn't work. I've got Alex> everything up to the point that "ypcat passwd" indeed cats all Alex> the passwd file from the NIS server (with the passwords replaced Alex> with "##username"). My /etc/passwd has a +:::::: entry in the Alex> end, and /etc/group - the +::: entry. /etc/nsswitch.conf says Alex> "compat" for passwd, group, and shadow. And yet, when I try to Alex> log in using one of the usernames from the NIS server, it won't Alex> let me. Has anyone stumbled upon anything like this?
Alex> I suspect it has something to do with the way shadow passwords Alex> work in Solaris and in Linux. However, on an adjacent Slackware Alex> box it works flawlessly. What can be the problem? Is the Solaris NIS server running NIS+ ? If so you might be out of luck, unless you are prepared to build your own glibc. See http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html On the other hand, if the server is running NIS (or NIS+ in NIS emulation mode) then it should work fine (except for netgroups). I use it all the time, and your setup sounds OK to me. -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester University phone: (+44) 116 252 3902
