Authentication: NIS vs LDAP

Wed Aug 11 15:55:37 UTC 2004

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 16:04, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>     I've been working with NIS for a while; I've gotten it to work
> before, but this time between FC1 (client) and FC2 (server) it simply
> refuses to cooperate. And several tens of hours Googling has gotten me
> nowhere, regardless of keywords or languages.
Try permutations of "NIS yppasswd howto"

>     Has anyone done this, and do you have a HOWTO you like for this?
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/NIS-HOWTO.html

Other potential sources of issues interfering here:
* firewalls (system-config-security, shorewall)
* /etc/nsswitch.conf
* /var/yp/Makefile.

Ralf