On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 02:55:20AM +0200, Fredrik Bjurenfors wrote:
> Im trying to get NIS working.
> The NIS server is a Debian GNU/Linux machine (sid)
> The Client is a NetBSD 1.5 machine (not working)
> I have a working GNU/Linux client.
> 
> 
> On the netbsd client:
> I can do ypcat passwd and i get all accounts that is avaible.
> 
> This is what the passwd looks like:
> +:*::::0:0:::

I think this should be
+:::::0:0:::

otherwise all client gets '*' as passwd.

Second make sure that the Linux box is using the same crypto method as NetBSD.
I suspect it defaults to MD5

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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