Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 18:05:12 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r224674 - head/etc Message-ID: <CAGH67wQ1NNrT8becXq5oFgXf7QP6ZUmqLEiaBqdO-afJBx4K2w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9DDF0DAB-9056-45CD-8CE9-81B621A35B13@nitro.dk> References: <201108060916.p769Gr4A043462@svn.freebsd.org> <9DDF0DAB-9056-45CD-8CE9-81B621A35B13@nitro.dk>
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On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@nitro.dk> wrote: > > On 6 Aug 2011, at 11:16, Doug Barton wrote: > >> Author: dougb >> Date: Sat Aug =A06 09:16:53 2011 >> New Revision: 224674 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224674 >> >> Log: >> =A0Rather than edit the nsswitch.conf file based on ${MK_NIS} =3D=3D "no= " >> =A0comment out the NIS _compat options by default, but leave them in >> =A0the file for the convenience of users who want to enable it. >> >> =A0Update the comment in the file accordingly. > > This disables NIS by default which is rather surprising considering there= has been no prior (which I have been able to find) discussion of this. > > At the _VERY_ least people need to be warned about this loudly. Unless yo= u can show this really helps non-NIS users this is IMO a bad idea. > > Yes, if you hand merge all /etc files this won't be a problem... but I do= n't since life's to short for that, so this change just broke login on one = of the FreeBSD.org during an upgrade. non-POLA changes are bad, and this _definitely_ deserves an UPDATING entry and/or further discussion. Thanks, -Garrett
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