Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:17:29 -0400 From: Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script Message-ID: <20000921181728.B61901@carroll.com> In-Reply-To: <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:01:10PM -0700 References: <20000921133159.H12822@carroll.com> <39CA5A95.19DA1448@isi.edu> <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:01:10PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >I've never used NIS, but isn't this either a bug/missing feature >in NIS or a misconfiguaration on your part? > >Shouldn't NIS have a "first found" option so that root:wheel doesn't >need NIS resolution? There are cases when you do not want to have the root password info on a workstation. In our case, these are thin-client network computers, we would rather have a centrally managed root password for the NIS domain, and I cannot see why this is a bad idea. >I'd rather see NIS fixed than the rc system hacked to death because >of NIS brain death. This in my mind is not a hack, it is the re-ordering of boot options to optimize the interaction of network services. -- Damien Tougas Systems Administrator Carroll-Net, Inc. http://www.carroll.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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