Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:56:25 +0200 (EET) From: "Ben 'Bend Over' Dover" <mike@sonhosting.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS overrides with user groups Message-ID: <12416.137.163.145.226.1079078185.squirrel@www.sonhosting.net>
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The last couple of days I have bin trying to setup a box to authenticate users from a NIS server. With the help of the Handbook pages I've done that and it works. But I can't seem to get to only add users from a specific normal group to the client. According to the 4.9-Release passwd man pages: >Using groups instead of netgroups for NIS overrides >FreeBSD offers the capability to do override matching based on user groups >rather than netgroups. If, for example, an NIS entry is specified as: > +@operator::::::::: >the system will first try to match users against a netgroup called >`operator'. If an `operator' netgroup doesn't exist, the system will try >to match users against the normal `operator' group instead. I understood this to be that if operator isn't a netgroup but normal group this should only add users from the NIS-server that belong to that group. But I can't get it to work! Did I understand this wrong or have someone else experienced this problem? I'd just like to know if this is possible to accomplish or not!
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