[wplug] NIS over SSH

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Guys, does anyone know if there is a special configuration needed for
| machines belonging to an NIS domain to be reachable by SSH?
| 
| Right now I have 20 machines authenticating to an NIS server, and mounting
| users' $HOME over NFS just fine, when sitting at the keyboard of these
| machines.
| 
| BUT, when I SSH over to any one of them, I authenticate, and immediately
| the connection is dropped. ssh -v doesn't give out any valuable
| information, it just tells me that I authenticate correctly, and then the
| session exits.

is there anything in /var/log/messages on the ssh server that might be
interesting?

is there anything in /etc/nsswitch.conf that might make ssh not use nis?

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