Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 19:29:55 +0100 (MET) From: Remy.Card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs: how bad is it? Message-ID: <199501031829.TAA01718@ares.ibp.fr> In-Reply-To: <9501031802.AA05179@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 3, 95 11:02:26 am
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> > > I have made a FreeBSD 2.0 box a ypclient and nfs client at work. I can > > login to the box with my nfs shared home directory as my home. I can > > edit a file but if I save it, it saves with 0 length. I cannot create > > a file. I have the same uid and gid I do from the Sun but the /etc/group > > file is not set to use NIS. > > > > Has anyone else done this and had it work? > > Yes, I have. I have too :-) > The problem is the format of the entry that goes at the end of the group > file; unfortunately, I can't access my system right now, and it changed > from 1.1.5 to 2.0 anyway. > > This really should be a simple '+' or '+:', but is not. Actually, I had to add a line: +::: to the end of the /etc/group file. When I tried to use '+:' like on Sun workstations, login dumped core :-( I think that there is a bug in a library function which does not check the lines in /etc/group before using them. > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > Remy
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