Boris Epstein wrote:
Hello listmates,
I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to anything but NIS thus far. See here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-f...
http://readlist.com/lists/suse.com/suse-linux-e/38/193419.html
Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for authentication?
I have no problems as a NIS user using sftp to a CentOS 5 box running OpenSSH 5.x
This isn't really a CentOS issue - as CentOS ships with OpenSSH v4.x
I suggest you download the vanilla OpenSSH 5.x source and build and install it on a host that has NIS accounts and test it.
James Pearson