I had to change the following lines in my /etc/pam.d/login file from

auth include system-local-login
account include system-local-login
session include system-local-login

to:

auth include system-auth
account include system-auth
session include system-auth

in order to be able to login from the terminal with NIS. I didn't know if that was an acceptable way of doing it, but it might need to be added to the wiki so others don't experience this issue. Tastycakes (talk) 22:02, 2 July 2014 (UTC)