On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > I have, what I expect is, a simple problem. > > I'm trying to set my Potato box to use NIS to do the lookup for /etc/passwd. > I have the +:::::: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp > tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch pauls passwd' brings up the right response.) > I've even got autofs automouting home directories with info gleened from the > NIS database. > > Everything is great....except... > > If the user has no password then he can't logon to the system. What is > blocking this? I believe this is PAM rather than NIS causing the problem, > but PAM is a mystery to me. > > Does anybody have any ideas? or any good sources of info for PAM?
Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use lookups) recognizes NIS with any problems, so long as the NS Switch is setup properly. Ben
