On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein@gmail.com> 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-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/Hence the question: is NIS (YP) still in use much anywhere for authentication?Even without AD one could setup a Kerberos server and NIS database a lot easier then LDAP.-Ross