What NIS maps are necessary for OSX 10.6 to authenticate?
I have an ubuntu-sever sharing NIS, and from the OSX client, ypcat passwd, ypcat group and (as root) ypcat shadow.byname all work, and return the correct info.
If I type groups kyle (a user in NIS, but not on the local machine), I get all the correct group information.
The only thing that doesn't work, is logging in.
(And yes, if I point an ubuntu box to that NIS server, everything authenticates off of it just fine).
Best Answer
Mac OS X 10.6 cannot use NIS for authentication (as far as I know). With 10.5 it worked well with our Debian server, but after the upgrade logging in stopped working :-(
But I found the following posts, they can probaly help you: