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> Thanks for the replies, guys, it's (freakin' finally) working.

Thank the NIS Gods.

> I don't know if it was the extra blank line before  the  +::::::::: in 
> /etc/master.passwd was the culprit

It is likely.

> or the weird characters in 
> /var/yp/ypservers.  I did some reading to try and find out if 
> /var/yp/ypservers was supposed to be garbled/encrypted but I could find out 
> anything useful.  Hopefully, I haven't borked some security by entering plain

On my NIS master :

buzby# pwd
/var/yp/<NISDOMMAIN>
buzby# file ypservers 
ypservers: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order)
buzby# 

Good luck,

 - Mike
 

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