Solaris NIS Client Woes..

[Steven M. Klass]

Hi All,

I have a Solaris NIS Client that is trying to talk to a Linux NIS 
Server.  The NIS Server (Redhat 7) work fine with all other Linux NIS 
clients (Slack / Deb etc) but won't work completely with Solaris.  What do 
I mean?  I have ypbind working on the Solaris.  I can "ypcat passwd" and 
get what you would expect - an NIS list of all users passwd groups yada 
yada.  So NIS is sorta working.  The problem is that I can't login.  The 
nsswitch.conf has the following (among other stuff)
         passwd: files nis
         group: files nis

It is said that this has to do with mangling.  I have that set to no.  When 
I do ypcat passwd I get a "username:cryptic_codes:yada..." not x.

My ypserv.conf has the following
<snip>
         dns: no
         mangle: no
         *                        : shadow.byname    : port       : yes
         *                        : passwd.adjunct.byname : port  : yes
         *                                : *                : none
<snip>

Does anyone have any ideas.  There are several emails up at google 
(formerly deja) where people have dealt with this, but no solutions were 
posted..

Thanks


Steven M. Klass
Physical Design Engineering Manager

Andigilog Inc.
7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100
Chandler, AZ 85226
Ph: 480-940-6200 ext. 18
Fax: 480-940-4255

sklass@andigilog.com
http://www.andigilog.com/