I'm trying to use NIS for authentication on a st of machines. I had to change one of the user ID numbers for a user account on the NIS server (I changed the userid for username from 500 to 509 to avoid a conflict with a local user account with id 500 on the clients). The problem is that it has not updated properly on the client. 
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            Hello,
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
 PrintMo...
            
           
          
            
            I found your article using Apache Auth with gitweb, gitosis.
I was wondering if there was a way to do this if I wasn't using LDAP for authentication. We currently have a very large NIS domain which we use for authentication on all unix servers.
We use this for SVN repositories through a UI, but for this case I am trying to meet a requir...
            
           
          
            
            I have NIS server with user "techsupport", which has uid/gid = 517
I've configured NIS and NFS on that server, as well as NFS/NIS client on the remote web server. 
Now I need to techsupport user to be able to login to web server using techsupport username, but HAVE root privileges. I need this, so I can easily track, which support agen...