NIS passwords

[Kirby Clements]

This is an issue regarding NIS - if this is not appropriate for this list, no fret taken.

I am having trouble finding out which line to put into /etc/passwd and /etc/group and so on. I have read that the line: +::::::
will work for all users in the passwd file, as long as one places it before all normal users. I have been trying to use the line for one user, not to break anyone else's account momentarily, as the following: +tom:::::: and I have tried +tom:*:
None of this is causing issues on the NIS server, and the server is also the client. I have one other box running as a client as well, ofcourse, and all is well as far as rpc goes, rpc.yppasswd on the master, and ypbind, etc. These boxes are updated from the RHN as of yesterday.

So, the test is to change the passwd with passwd only, not yppasswd (I have just read - apperently built in now to ypserv ?), and then I go to the other client box and see if I can log in with the new password. Is this correct, or rather, shouldn't this be an example of how to use NIS? I am feeling that something with the actual passwd and group files is not being done right. As well, nsswitch.conf has not been touched, apparently only for NIS+. The domainname has been set and ypwhich recognizes everything. Any clues would be cool. I cannot seem to find one solid answer on the lines needed for the files that use the maps.

-Kirby



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