NIS authentication problems

[Jurvis LaSalle]

On Apr 19, 2004, at 7:49 PM, Goncalo Pedro wrote:

> I am having trouble setting up a nis client.

What OS is the client running?  I had the same problems authenticating 
NIS clients running Mac OS X.2 off of a RH7.3 server.  The problem was 
that the password crypts were MD5 (you can tell because they start with 
'$1$'), which Jaguar didn't support out of the box.  Configuring the 
NIS server to use DES (with the authconfig utility) solved my problem 
(after making everyone re-encrypt their password- ugh!).

HTH,
Jurvis LaSalle