Bob Proulx said: > I have a friend at work who is trying to install debian. I have been > helping. Doing my best to spread the knowledge around. Unfortunately I > have hit a snag regarding NIS, possibly PAM, on Debian. > > Are there any log files or increased debugging that I could kick in for > PAM and NIS? do you have nscd running? if not I highly reccomend it for any kind of remote authentication, NIS/LDAP/SQL etc. nate