Problem while creating a new user on solaris

Question

I have a SUN ultra machine. Solaris 2.6 is installed on this machine.
I have successfully created a new user in this machine using "admintool"
Problem is I'm getting error messages when I'm trying to update NIS DATABASE.
I'm doing-
#cd /var/yp
#/usr/ccs/bin/make
and the response is----
updated passwd
pushed passwd
make:Warning:Don't know how to make target /etc/ethers
Current working directory /var/yp
make:Warning:Don't know how to make target /etc/netgroup
Current working directory /var/yp
make:Warning:Don't know how to make target /etc/bootparams
Current working directory /var/yp
updated netid
pushed netid
Couldn't find /etc/timezone
make:Warning:Target all not remade because of errors.
Current working directory /var/yp

Answer 1

I had the a similar problem with new users on sloaris 8.
I wasn't able to add new users and change the shell variable while using admintool.
Login back into the console would simply not happen.
All i've been able to find is that changing the users' variable - i.e. .login or .profile to match that of a working existing user (root),
would skip over the problems.
Other variables in the skeleton files were helpful. I suggest you take a look at them.