users

I'm trying to use autoyast with suse 9.1, I seem to be stuck on creating user accounts. I'm just trying to have the base system accounts created during the install, but I get an group file with only +::: and a password file with +::::, and I'm not configuring nis. I tried just not putting any users in, but then I got no root password, if I have it create root, it creates it like a normal user account. Two questions, what am I doing wrong, and how do I configure autoyast to NOT configure the machine as a nis client ? I'd be happy to sent the config file if needed. Thanks, Todd