Re: NIS

[Jack Bates <jdb419@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, that does work. I'd just rather not edit /etc/passwd. I'd 
prefer a solution like Exim's, which communicates directly with NIS. I 
gather there are no PAM modules which communicate directly with NIS?

Jack

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
>
> > I don't use NIS for login. I run ypbind to enable SMTP authentication
> > in Exim, which doesn't use PAM. I would now like to enable
> > authentication via NIS in Cyrus IMAPd, which can be configured to use
> > PAM. I can't figure out which module to use. Someone recommended
> > pam_unix with the nis option, but I still can't authenticate as an NIS
> > user who can't also login. Any suggestions?
>
> Does setting the shell to /bin/false work?
>
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