>Here’s a short description how to get MacOSX and NIS together if you have no GUI (or the GUI doesn’t work as expected…).
1. open /etc/hostconfig
2. edit NISDOMAIN=-NO- to NISDOMAIN=yourdomain.nis
3. mkdir /etc/lookupd
4. echo LookupOrder CacheAgent NIAgent DSAgent NISAgent > global
5. killall -HUP lookupd
6. check your config with lookupd -configuration. The output should be something like:
morpheus:/Users/Shared root# lookupd -configuration
ConfigSource: file://etc/lookupd
LookupOrder: CacheAgent NIAgent DSAgent NISAgent
MaxIdleServers: 4
MaxIdleThreads: 2
MaxThreads: 64
TimeToLive: 43200
Timeout: 30
ValidateCache: YES
ValidationLatency: 15
_config_name: Global Configuration
7. test NIS with ypcat group and id username