On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 17:53, Sandeep Agarwal wrote: > am i newbie to NIS world but having a wierd problem. > Am having 8 machines in my network with NIS master and > rest are NIS clients all on RH 8.0. It's not really an answer to your question, but I thought I'd say I've always found LDAP to be much easier to work with than NIS. If your set-up is an all-linux environment, perhaps you might find it easier (and more secure) in the long run to use LDAP authentication? Craig Ringer _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list