nis client and shadow passwords

[theo borm <theo_nbusr%borm.org@localhost>]

Dear all,

I'm tring to set up a NetBSD NIS client. The server stores encrypted 
passwords in a shadow passord file while NetBSD tries to authenticate 
against the non-shadow password file (containing 'x' in the password field).

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.

Any pointers are appreciated.

with kind regards,

Theo