AIX

I wish to use shadow maps with NIS.
Put shadow to the all: rule in /var/yp/Makefile and check the shadow rules for your system. For changing shadow NIS passwords, read the rpc.yppasswdd man page. libc5 with traditonal NIS doesn't support shadow passwords over NIS.

#
# ypserv.conf In this file you can set certain options for the NIS server,
# and you can deny or restrict access to certain maps based
# on the originating host.
#
# See ypserv.conf(5) for a description of the syntax.
#

# Some options for ypserv. This things are all not needed, if
# you have a Linux net.

# Should we do DNS lookups for hosts not found in the hosts table ?
# This option is ignored in the moment.
dns: no

# How many map file handles should be cached ?
files: 30

# xfr requests are only allowed from ports < 1024
xfr_check_port: yes

# The following, when uncommented, will give you shadow like passwords.
# Note that it will not work if you have slave NIS servers in your
# network that do not run the same server as you.

# Host : Domain : Map : Security
#
# * : * : passwd.byname : port
# * : * : passwd.byuid : port

# Not everybody should see the shadow passwords, not secure, since
# under MSDOG everbody is root and can access ports < 1024 !!!
* : * : shadow.byname : port
* : * : passwd.adjunct.byname : port

# If you comment out the next rule, ypserv and rpc.ypxfrd will
# look for YP_SECURE and YP_AUTHDES in the maps. This will make
# the security check a little bit slower, but you only have to
# change the keys on the master server, not the configuration files
# on each NIS server.
# If you have maps with YP_SECURE or YP_AUTHDES, you should create
# a rule for them above, that's much faster.
# * : * : * : none

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Originally Posted by aloneattack

And, I have no shadow.byname in /var/yp/domain_directory