Dear gentleman,
i am trying to get nis to build their maps from files located in

another directory than "/etc".
So, my Makefile (inside /var/yp/`domainname`) has the following lines :
YPDBDIR=/var/yp

DIR=/asd/etc

AMDDIR=/asd/etc/amd

NOPUSH=""

UNSECURE=

USEDNS=-b
So my ideia is to grab as input, passwd and group files from

"/asd/etc"; all others are empty.
My group file inside "/asd/etc" is:

its:*:1000:

asd:*:1001:sioux

dba:*:1002:sioux

wbx:*:1003:

alg:*:1004:sioux

djb:*:1005:

nofiles:*:1006:

qmail:*:1007:

ftp:*:1008:

ord:*:2000:

adc:*:2001:

bod:*:2002:

frn:*:2003:
And my master.passwd is:

sioux:$2a$08$B8PLPgdw18I.TlnZC8RnZezg1Ed8gQL8WU/4rpxdyGdOk/PO/9Ude:1000:1000:mojave:0:0::/home/sioux:/bin/sh

mysql:*:1001:1002:mojave:0:0::/home/mysql:/usr/bin/false

oldap:*:1002:1002:mojave:0:0::/home/oldap:/usr/bin/false

dnscache:*:1003:1005:mojave:0:0::/home/dnscache:/usr/bin/false

dnslog:*:1004:1005:mojave:0:0::/home/dnslog:/usr/bin/false

tinydns:*:1005:1005:mojave:0:0::/home/tinydns:/usr/bin/false

ftp:*:1006:1008:mojave:0:0::/asd/var/ftp:/sbin/nologin

alias:*:1007:1006:mojave:0:0::/var/qmail/alias:/usr/bin/true

qmaild:*:1008:1006:mojave:0:0::/var/qmail:/usr/bin/true

qmaill:*:1009:1006:mojave:0:0::/var/qmail:/usr/bin/true

qmailp:*:1010:1006:mojave:0:0::/var/qmail:/usr/bin/true

qmailq:*:1011:1007:mojave:0:0::/var/qmail:/usr/bin/true

qmailr:*:1012:1007:mojave:0:0::/var/qmail:/usr/bin/true

qmails:*:1013:1007:mojave:0:0::/var/qmail:/usr/bin/true
Then i issued :
# pwd_mkdb -d /asd/etc -s master.passwd

# cd /var/yp/`domainname`

# make
Everything was built ok! But, the problem is the following: I cannot

login as user sioux using the password i setted for it. But if i try

the login as user sioux using a empty password ("") the authentication

procedure passes.
I can't understand what i am doing wrong?
thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.
Best regards.