If you want to share passwords over NIS you probably need to
	uncomment INSECURE?=yes on the server's /var/yp/<domain>/Makefile

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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Matt Bell wrote:

>
>
> The user can't log in, gives the error Login incorrect. Although i can su
> to the specific user from root and everything is fine. The problem lies
> whenever i have to supply a password for example logging in via the
> specific user.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Chris Pinnock wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:47:35 +0100
> > From: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
> > To: Matt Bell <mtbell@micropede.com>
> > Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Netbsd and linux NIS troubles
> >
> > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:23:46PM -0700, Matt Bell wrote:
> > > I have nsswitch.conf set up similar to what you described here. The only
> > > thing is that the netbsd nis server is not sending over a shadow file for
> > > the password lookups its sending over master.passwd which netbsd uses and
> > > is in a differnt format. Is there any way i can convert this master.passwd
> > > file to the format useable for linux.
> > >
> > > Once again thanks in advance,
> > > -Matt
> >
> > Ok. Let's step back a bit.
> >
> > What exactly doesn't work? Is it that a user can't log in?
> >
> > It is possible that a user can't log in because their shell is in the
> > "wrong" place on the Linux client.
> >
> > e.g. the NIS password file might have /usr/pkg/bin/tcsh for a shell
> > entry, but this won't necessarily exist on the Linux machine. This can
> > be fixed by making the /usr/pkg/bin directory and using symbolic links.
> >
> > cheers,
> > --
> > Chris
> >
>
>