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in reply to Perl NIS authentication

Try:

use strict; use warnings;

at the top of your code to see some warnings / errors with what you posted.

I don't have a NIS server to test against, but I'm willing to bet if your credentials are correct, the following (untested) may work:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Net::NIS; use Authen::Simple::NIS; my $default_domain = Net::NIS::yp_get_default_domain(); my $nis = Authen::Simple::NIS->new(domain => $default_domain); if ($nis->authenticate("user", "testpass")) { print "Success\n" } print "done\n";