I keep my NIS source files in an alternate location on my NIS server (not
in /etc).  This works well for everything except rpc.yppasswdd, which
seems to assume that the rest of the YP subsystem is getting the pertinent
flat files from /etc.  In my case, this prevents my users from changing
their passwords... rpc.yppasswd doesn't accept the "old" password, because
there is no matching entry in /etc/master.passwd.

Basically all I care about is disallowing certain users from logging in.
Previously (in FreeBSD) I did that by putting the flat maps in a directory
under /var/yp and modifying the Makefiles, and then not binding the
machine to its own ypserv.

Thanks in advance.

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