From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 20 7:17:48 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 257BC37B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0519E43F85 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h1KFHdcR062816; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:17:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:17:39 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Antoine Jacoutot Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: MINUID in NIS Makefile Message-ID: <20030220151739.GM13096@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200302201226.37661.ajacoutot@lphp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302201226.37661.ajacoutot@lphp.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 20), Antoine Jacoutot said: > Is there a way to use the MINUID and MINGID options in a NIS Makefile > or is it Linux only ? Indeed, with large networks when new users > arrive or leave, it is a pain to have to copy then edit the > master.passwd file each time a change occurs. You'll have to tell us what those options mean before we can tell you whether there is an equivalent. You don't need to copy /var/yp/master.passwd to edit it; just make the change and run "make". If you want the ability to script changes, use the pw command with the flags "-V /var/yp -y", tells it to manipulate the NIS passwd files instead of the ones in /etc and to run "make" automatically. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message