Re: NIS client?

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 20050207082042.GE24873@assata>,
matze  <matze@indymedia.org> wrote:
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>El Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:43:05PM -0500 Mason Loring Bliss ha dit:
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>> I'm trying to integrate a couple Debian NIS clients into a network that has
>> been running for a while. The master NIS server is a NetBSD box.
>> 
>> KDM sees NIS-based account names, and as root I can ypcat master.passwd.byname
>> which shows my DES hashes, but I'm not clear on how to actually get PAM to
>> authenticate using this.
>
>never worked with NIS in real life, but afaik there's no need to
>modify the PAM configuration. configuring NSS should be enough:
>
>/etc/nsswitch.conf:
>
>passwd:         compat nis
>group:          compat nis
>shadow:         compat nis

There's a complete step-by-step HOWTO in
/usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz

Mike.