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Date:      Sun, 7 Aug 2011 22:51:29 +0200
From:      "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r224674 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <9DDF0DAB-9056-45CD-8CE9-81B621A35B13@nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <201108060916.p769Gr4A043462@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201108060916.p769Gr4A043462@svn.freebsd.org>

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On 6 Aug 2011, at 11:16, Doug Barton wrote:

> Author: dougb
> Date: Sat Aug  6 09:16:53 2011
> New Revision: 224674
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224674
>=20
> Log:
>  Rather than edit the nsswitch.conf file based on ${MK_NIS} =3D=3D =
"no"
>  comment out the NIS _compat options by default, but leave them in
>  the file for the convenience of users who want to enable it.
>=20
>  Update the comment in the file accordingly.

This disables NIS by default which is rather surprising considering =
there has been no prior (which I have been able to find) discussion of =
this.

At the _VERY_ least people need to be warned about this loudly. Unless =
you can show this really helps non-NIS users this is IMO a bad idea.

Yes, if you hand merge all /etc files this won't be a problem... but I =
don't since life's to short for that, so this change just broke login on =
one of the FreeBSD.org during an upgrade.

--=20
Simon L. B. Nielsen




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