Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:02:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> Cc: questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NIS, no luck :-( Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980313185925.19404E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980312180537.249D-100000@barnowl.roost.net>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, John Kenagy wrote: > > DId you find *all* the man pages, esp. yp(8) and ypserv(8)? > > If its possible, the characters are faded from over use.;-) > I feel that I'm missing something crashingly obvious, but what? Just checking :) > > > Since I cannot log on to any users in the map I think the append never > > > happens. What, exactly is the syntax of the "+" key usage in this > > > implementation. > > > > +::::::::, I think. Count my colons, it should correspond to the number > > of fields in /etc/passwd. > > In the book by Stern (O'Reilly), the fields are sometimes filled with > zero or, an asterisk, as in +:*::0:0:::: etc. for expanding group > and user IDs. This is also used to replace some of the fields in the > global map with local values. The asterisk is for password protection. > Are these syntactic conventions for the Sun platform or general to > FreeBSD also? I would think no -- the specified values would *override* those in the map, and I don't think you want to download a map that has a bunch of accounts as root:wheel with logins disabled. :) Note that FreeBSD's implementation of NIS was developed independently of Sun's, following their specifications. No doubt some inconsistencies exist between the two. i.e, we use ypserv and Sun uses ypinit. > Oh, well, I do this for the challenge, right? ...right? ...? Yes, and hopefully will write documentation afterward :) My laptop has an unsupported PCCARD controller and I don't have another crashbox or I'd experiment with this more seriously. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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