Since this question is "security" relevant and I don't know where else to ask I thought I ask it here. My NIS Server is a Solaris box. My NIS Clients are (primarily) SuSE boxes (6.0,6.4,7.0). On the NIS server I've moved the encrypted passwds into the passwd.adjunct file. This seems to be okay for the SuSE 7.0 boxes. Login is successful. However on 6.0 and 6.4 boxes the login always fails with "login incorrect". A trace between client (SuSE 6.4, or 7.0) and server basically shows: client -> server Get Map Name: passwd.byname, Key=<user> server -> client Key Matched: Value = user:##user:uid:gid:gcos:home:sh client -> server Get Map Name: passwd.adjunct.byname, Key=<user> server -> client Key Matched: Value = user:##user:uid:gid:gcos:home:sh client -> server Get Map Name: shadow.byname, Key=<user> server -> client Key Matched: Value = EMPTY This is security relevant since the idea behind passwd.adjunct is that it hinders normal user's from retrieving the encrypted passwords via "ypcat passwd". Alan +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Alan Miller BinTec Commmunications AG | | System/Network Administrator Südwestpark 94 | | Voice: +49 911 96 73 14 55 D-90449, Nürnberg | | Fax: +49 911 96 73 14 99 Germany | | mailto:alan@bintec.de http://www.BinTec.de | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+