I'm trying to set up a Redhat 7.2 machine to be an NIS client for a FreeBSD 4.6 NIS server. I get output from ypcat, ypwhich, but authentication always fails for nis profiles. I've already seen the posts about pam_unix.so, and have changed to pam_pwdb.so in pam.d's system-auth, login, rlogin, etc., with no success. I get the following error messages in my /var/log/messages on the RH system upon trying to ssh using an NIS profile named nistest, which has a password of 8 plain characters: PAM_pwdb [11070]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> nistest for sshd service _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list