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Asked: 2026-05-11T12:32:32+00:00

i have a working solaris 10 server with ssh and NIS using the following

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i have a working solaris 10 server with ssh and NIS using the following configuration:

# /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd:     files nis group:      files nis

and

# /etc/ssh/sshd_config  Protocol 2  Port 22  ListenAddress ::  AllowTcpForwarding no  GatewayPorts no  X11Forwarding yes  X11DisplayOffset 10  X11UseLocalhost yes  PrintMotd no  KeepAlive yes  SyslogFacility auth  LogLevel info  HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key  HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key  ServerKeyBits 768  KeyRegenerationInterval 3600  StrictModes yes  LoginGraceTime 600  MaxAuthTries       6  MaxAuthTriesLog    3  PermitEmptyPasswords yes  PasswordAuthentication yes  PAMAuthenticationViaKBDInt yes  PermitRootLogin yes  Subsystem  sftp    /usr/lib/ssh/sftp-server  IgnoreRhosts yes  RhostsAuthentication no  RhostsRSAAuthentication no  RSAAuthentication yes

Now, i want to switch to compat mode:

# /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd:     compat group:      files nis

I added a few users to:

# /etc/passwd +luke:x:::::

ran pwvcon and then password authentification for user luke doesn’t not work anymore (while public-key is still OK).

Is there something wrong with my setup ?

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  1. From passwd(4):

    If a +name entry has a non-null password [..] the value of that field overrides what is contained in the alternate naming service.

    Can you see if removing the ‘x’ in the passwd-column and running pwconv again helps?

    Edit: the first guess was totally off, see comments, so here’s another guess — I can’t break my Sun’s config just now, sorry 😉

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