Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:42:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Brian D. McGrew" <brian@visionpro.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YP Passwords Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906091241550.3005-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <375A967A.D7F1BFDC@visionpro.com>
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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > Greets, > > I'm using FreeBSD-3.1 RELEASE. I setup my server as a > ypserver. Everything seemed to go smoothly. From the server 'bigguy', > I can ypcat all the map files, and ypwhich says it's bound to it's self > 'bigguy'. After the setup, all my local user logins had been > COPIED from /etc/passwd to /var/yp/passwd. This was a good thing.. So, > I removed all the local stuff from /etc/passwd. Not too great an idea. You want to leave root and such in there so you an login if the YP server tanks. Oh, and you did it with vipw, right? And not editing passwd directly, which HAS NO EFFECT? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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