Re: nis client and shadow passwords

[Uwe Klaus <uklaus%hgb-leipzig.de@localhost>]

> How can I force NetBSD to take passwords from the shadow file, and other 
> account details (uid,gid, shell) from the non-shadow password file?

> Communications with the server do not seem to be a problem, as I can ypcat 
> passwd.byname and shadow.byname, and yptest returns no errors from NetBSD. 
> If I replace the 'x' in the non-shadow password file with the DES hash of 
> the users' password, the user can log-in to the NetBSD box.
check man nsswitch.conf

/etc/nsswitch.conf should contain
group:          files nis
group_compat:   nis
passwd:         files nis
passwd_compat:  nis

Best Regards,
Uwe