My original question was about the difficulties of operating NIS
from an Alpha as a client to a NIS+ server on a Sun operating in
NIS compatibility mode.
Thanks for the input, specifically from Crispin Harris in Oz and
Henning Fruechtenicht In Germany.
The problem appears to have been in the access permissions on the
shadow file which need to give read access to user nobody when in
NIS compatibility mode (nischmod n+r passwd.org_dir). For some
reason this was not the case, correcting this cleared our problem.
Thanks again
Regards
Bernard V McNally
Internet: bmc_at_roe.ac.uk Royal Observatory Edinburgh,
Phone: +44 (0)131 668 8374 Blackford Hill,
Fax: +44 (0)131 668 8264 Edinburgh,
Scotland, U.K. EH9 3HJ
Received on Tue Jun 06 1995 - 11:11:35 NZST