Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 02:12:59 +0200 From: "Philip Paeps" <philip@paeps.cx> To: "'Joe McGuckin'" <joe@monk.via.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: YP/NIS problems Message-ID: <002901c14f8d$fcdbc990$0200000a@paeps.cx> In-Reply-To: <200110072244.f97MiGJ85319@monk.via.net>
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> I'm *not* running NIS, yet when I run passwd, it's trying to connect > to a ypbind server. I have to wait about a minute for all this > to time out before I can proceed with the passwd change. > > How does passwd determine if your system is running NIS? Some magic > cookie in the password file ? If so, what is it ? Check if /etc/master.passwd doesn't contain an entry like: +::::::::: and that rc.conf doesn't start the nis client (in other words: that ypbind(8) isn't running). - Philip -- Philip Paeps philip@paeps.cx http://www.vitaya.tv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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