Re: NIS problem

[Christian Schaefer <schaefer@in.tum.de>]

Alexis Huxley wrote:
> > 'I have no name!@galileo:~$'.
> > My yp.conf and nsswitch.conf are the same like on the other 
> > Suse-NIS-Clients.
> > In /etc/passwd the last line is '+::::::'.
> > In /etc/shadow '+::::::::' and in /etc/group '+:::'.
> These ancient style '+::::::::' entries are not needed. 
> Configure according to the Debian machine's
> /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz, which works for me using
> client, master and slave configurations.

Yes, I did so. /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz tells something 
about this '+::::::' style.
How did you do it?

Chris