Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:58:11 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: "J. Maynard Gelinas" <mgelinas@bbn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS client support in FreeBSD-3.3 Message-ID: <199911122058.AA010350293@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:30:08 EST." <199911122030.PAA05705@bbn.com>
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> I note that according to the man nis I'm supposed to use the traditional >"+" tokens in each various /etc configuration file in order to facilitate the >inclusion of each respective NIS map, however vipw won't allow me to include a > >basic token such as: > >+:*:0:0::: > >in the password map. It just complains about a garbled entry and won't build >write the password file. It doesn't go in the password map, it goes in /etc/master.passwd, which has more fields in it that /etc/passwd. Try this: Edit /etc/master.passwd using vipw At the bottom add: +::::::::: (that's 9 ':'s) -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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