They immediately had the answer for me (and it was also something I thought
of about 10 min after I sent the message but was out of the office and
couldn't try it).
I forgot to add the user to the /etc/shadow file also. Also Ian mentioned
the need for nsswitch.conf to look like:
passwd: compat
passwd_compat: nis
I had found that in the archives but without the addition to /etc/shadow it
wasn't working.
Thanks for the quick response, this group is great as always!
Lisa
Original post...
> Problem - I have a Solaris 2.5.1 machine setup for a class that I would
> like to restrict login to for a subset of NIS accounts, namely the list of
> students in the class and the instructors.
>
> Our NIS server is a SunOS 4.1.3 system. On the Solaris system I have set
> nsswitch.conf to passwd: compat mode and tried to add my self to the
> Solaris system in /etc/passwd as +lweihl:....etc. and it just always says
> it can't find me. Allowing general login (nsswitch.conf set to NIS) via
> NIS works just fine.
>
> Anybody have any hints on what I'm doing wrong?
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