There are many possible reasons for a user being unable to log in:
User forgot password. To set up a new password for a user who has forgotten the previous one, run passwd for that user on another machine (naturally, you have to be the NIS+ administrator to do this).
Mistyping password. Make sure the user knows the correct password and understands that passwords are case-sensitive and that the letter “o” is not interchangeable with the numeral “0,” nor is the letter “l” the same as the numeral “1.”
“Login incorrect” type message. For causes other than simply mistyping the password, see Login Incorrect Message.
The user's password privileges have expired (see Password Privilege Expiration in NIS+).
An inactivity maximum has been set for this user, and the user has passed it (see Specifying Maximum Number of Inactive Days for Users in NIS+).
The user's nsswitch.conf file is incorrect. The passwd entry in that file must be one of the following five permitted configurations:
passwd: files
passwd: files nis
passwd: files nisplus
passwd: compat
passwd: compat passwd_compat: nisplus
Any other configuration will prevent a user from logging in.
(See nsswitch.conf File Requirements for Passwords for further details.)