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Date:      07 Jun 1999 11:46:58 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>
Subject:   Re: NIS strangeness
Message-ID:  <xzpwvxgbawd.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message of "Sun, 06 Jun 1999 22:27:52 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <199906070227.WAA16969@smtp1.erols.com>

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John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> writes:
> If it was in /etc/master.passwd, yes.  In /etc/passwd, no.  At least, I run a
> lab of 80+ machines running NIS over FreeBSD and Digital Unix and all the
> FreeBSD clients have +:::::::: in /etc/master.passwd and +:*::::::: in
> /etc/passwd.

/etc/passwd is a dummy. It isn't used for anything.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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