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Date:      22 Sep 2000 11:41:32 +0200
From:      sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor])
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script
Message-ID:  <y9l66no69wz.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
In-Reply-To: Max Khon's message of "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:28:20 %2B0700 (NSS)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009221624500.44820-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>

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>>>>> "Max" == Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> writes:

Max> hi, there!

Max> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

>> > We have a similar problem with the combination of NIS and ipfw. The details
>> > (and a patch) are in conf/18521:
>> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18521 - nobody has touched it
>> > since its submission in May.
>> 
>> 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?

Max> nope. getpwnam("root") always tries to find "root" in NIS maps
Max> (and fails after a quite long delay miserably if for example NIS server is
Max> unreachable) even if root:wheel exists in local passwd/group files.

This doesn't happen here, at least not under 4.0-RELEASE.  What's your
/etc/passwd look like?

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla


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