From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 21 15:15: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com (core1.hck.carroll.com [216.44.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9C737B440 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from damien@localhost) by 01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA65344; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:17:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from damien) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:17:29 -0400 From: Damien Tougas To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script Message-ID: <20000921181728.B61901@carroll.com> References: <20000921133159.H12822@carroll.com> <39CA5A95.19DA1448@isi.edu> <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:01:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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