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To: Andreas Pleschutznig <andy@ple.org>
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Subject: Re: How to get NIS beeing recon'ed? 
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 16:42:23 -0500
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
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>I set up a NIS master server, and this is working. When I run the command 'ypc
>at
>passwd' I get a listing of the currently acitive NIS user database as I should
>.
>I get this listing on both, the server and the client. But now, since the
>service seems to be up and the client is bound to the server: How can I make t
>he
>login and all the other processes recognize that there is something else other
>than the passwd file. I tried to include a '+' entry into /etc/passwd and in
>/etc/master.passwd but still I cannot login as one of the NIS users on the
>client. Any hints? 

This is documented in the passwd(5) man page.  See the section titled
"Enabling access to NIS passwd data".

-Mitch


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