Thanks for all the help folks.  I have NIS/YP running now.

Had a slight problem in logging in once I had it setup which turned out
to be an issue with /etc/shells (bash is in /usr/pkg/bin on NetBSD and /bin on
Solaris).

The other issue I had was that I had to comment out the "compat" related
entries, and put the following in my /etc/nsswitch.conf

passwd:  files nis
group:     files nis

That works much better.  I certainly don't like having entries saying that I'm
an "Illegal user" :-)

Now are their certain standards/guidelines for submitting something to the
NetBSD Guide ?  And who do I submit it to ? 


cheers,

       mehul


On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:32:47 -0500, Mehul Sanghvi
<mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:19:29 +0100 (CET), Hubert Feyrer
> <hubert@feyrer.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > >> reboot. That should be enough. I'm not sure if you still need to put a
> > >> + into the last line of /etc/passwd though, probably not.
> > >
> > > Either that, or edit /etc/nsswitch.conf
> >
> > I thought the NIS client setup was described in the NetBSD Guide, but
> > aparently it isn't. Any takers? Patches etc. welcome! :)
> >
> >   - Hubert
> >
> 
> Let me get to my machine on Monday, see how the changes work, and then
> I can make my first contribution to NetBSD :)
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
>        mehul
> 
> --
> Mehul N. Sanghvi
> email: mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com
> 


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