On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, James O'Kane wrote:
> login with a userid from the list, and I get Login incorrect, and when I
> try to su to a user and I get su : unknown login jo2y. Is there something
> else I need to do with NetBSD that's different from linux?

Check this out:
http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/NetBSD/NWF/nwf_35.html
Basically, you have to tell your machine to actually use NIS for the
getpw*() functions, which you do by adding an appropriate entry via vipw.


 - Hubert


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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>