Re: NIS client?

["Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@amfes.com>]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

> In article <[🔎] 20050207082042.GE24873@assata>,
> matze  <matze@indymedia.org> wrote:
>  
>
> > -=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> > El Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:43:05PM -0500 Mason Loring Bliss ha dit:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > 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
> >    
I believe that's supposed to be:

/etc/nsswitch.conf:

passwd:         files nis
group:          files nis
shadow:         files nis

Because the "compat" mode is not supported?

Daniel