Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:54:56 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Following directions doesn't seem to work: Adding users in NIS Message-ID: <4713B780.4050205@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20071015054707.GA34948@parts-unknown.org> References: <20071015054707.GA34948@parts-unknown.org>
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David Benfell wrote: > Hello all, > > Where are there working directions for adding users under NIS? > > The instructions in the FreeBSD handbook don't seem to result in > added users being propagated out to slaves. And the failure is > silent, so I have no idea what I'm really supposed to be doing > to make this work. > > All I know is that added users end up in the main /etc/passwd > and /etc/master.passwd; the -Y option to pw seems to change nothing > other than to consume time "updating" (but I don't know what, since > the changes I'm looking for don't appear) various maps and "pushing" > the maps. > > And, having evidently done the *wrong* thing, how do I fix the > added users so they now appear in NIS? > Stupid question here, so I'll be the one to ask (seems a perfect job for a troll like me), did you read pw.conf(5)? Kevin Kinsey -- Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called Bureaucracy. Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.
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