Date: 18 Sep 2000 17:47:44 +0200 From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) To: <mitayai@bricsnet.com> Cc: "Eric Ogren" <eogren@earthlink.net>, "Freebsd-Stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: adduser & NIS Message-ID: <y9lvgvtln1b.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: "Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe"'s message of "Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:36:30 -0400" References: <NEBBIEGPMLMKDBMMICFNKEFMCPAA.mitayai@bricsnet.com>
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>>>>> "Will" == Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@bricsnet.com> writes: Will> hmm... maybe i could look into re-writing adduser so that it uses pw..... Will> -----Original Message----- Will> From: Eric Ogren [mailto:eogren@earthlink.net] Will> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 11:14 AM Will> To: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe Will> Cc: Freebsd-Stable Will> Subject: Re: adduser & NIS Will> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 06:53:41PM -0400, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: >> Is there an adduser equivalent that is compatible with an NIS environment? Will> Hi there- Will> What do you mean by an adduser that's compatible with NIS? Just run Will> adduser on your NIS master, merge the change into the master.passwd file Will> you have in /var/yp, and remake the maps... Unfortunately, there's a race with yppasswdd this way. I have not been able to find a way around it. In principle, yppasswdd performs locking, but how it does this is undocumented, and there is no adduser client which respects the same type of locking. Depending on the size of your installation, it may or may not be a problem (it is here). -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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