I have a netbsd 1.6 sparc64 machine setup as a nis client, and I'm having
a little trouble that I first thought to be a nss problem, but now I'm
not so sure.  Here is the nsswitch.conf

group:          files nis
group_compat:   nis
hosts:          files dns
netgroup:       files [notfound=return] nis
networks:       files
passwd:         files nis
passwd_compat:  nis
shells:         files

I've tried various combinations of compat along with +::::::::: in
master.passwd without success.  I can ypcat passwd and see all theentries
from the nis masters master.passwd map.  if i atempt to login with a nis
account, or finger a nis accound it fails.  ktrace/kdump does show the
fingerd users passwd map entry ...

788 finger   GIO   fd 3 wrote 92 bytes
       ">K~A\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\^B\0\^A\M^F\M-$\0\0\0\^B\0\0\0\^C\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\^Odimensional.com\0\0\0\0\^Tmaster.passwd.byname\0\0\0\^Ddaud"

but it still returned no such user.


Another thing that might be worth mentioning is that yppoll works just
fine for any mapname.  Any hints or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

dan