Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:12:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: "Kevin S. Brackett" <ksb@abyss.net> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS question Message-ID: <20000801091220.A4025@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008010229010.-417761@nightmare.abyss.net>; from "Kevin S. Brackett" on Tue Aug 1 02:30:58 GMT 2000 References: <20000801012245.A19258@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008010229010.-417761@nightmare.abyss.net>
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In the last episode (Aug 01), Kevin S. Brackett said: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > He's saying he wants the shell on "pop.host.com" to be forced to > > /bin/emailonly. That's easy; just add an override to your NIS include > > line: > > > > +::::::/sbin/nologin > > > > okay that's exactly what i wanted, now... if i have a user local to the > machine, and -username:::::: it, will it read from the local > database? this would be so some users can still be able to log into > systems to be able to remote maintence and such... if that works, then nis > is looking like a go. :) + and - entries only apply to NIS, and they only apply at the point they are inserted to /etc/passwd. If you have local user entries above your NIS + lines, they are used before NIS. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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