I have set up a NIS server and several NIS clients. I have a user and a group on the NIS server like so:
/etc/passwd: myself:x:5000:5000:,,,:/home/myself:/bin/bash
/etc/group: fishy:x:3001:otheruser,etc,myself,moreppl
I imported the users and groups on the NIS client by adding +:::::: to /etc/passwd and +::: to /etc/group.
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