Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:06:11 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stewart@wakko.visint.co.uk Subject: Re: Comments in the NIS master.passwd file Message-ID: <199807271806.LAA25585@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980727175444.13037A-100000@wakko.visint.co.uk>
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>Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:05:25 +0100 (BST) >From: Stewart Morgan <stewart@wakko.visint.co.uk> > We've got a rather large master.passwd file which we used to quite >happily break up into managable blocks with comments (ie lines beginning with >a '#'). This works fine with the password routines like pwd_mkdb from >2.2.6/7-stable. > Recently, we've moved over to NIS which moans about the comments, lots! >The question is, why hasn't NIS been patched to ignore commenting like >practically every other configuration file? Or has this already been delt with >in -current and if not, could it be? Dunno about -current, but it seems to me that if this is an issue for you, a small modification to /var/yp/Makefile (to strip the "comments" from the MASTER file before doing anything else with the information) would seem to be in order. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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