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Date:      Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:40:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: YP/NIS and passwd weirdness 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904021739120.12520-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199904030138.RAA62524@mordred.cs.ucla.edu>

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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Scott Michel wrote:

> > Umm- it's never supposed to have been with a '*' in it for this YP
> > implementation, I believe. Fixing the security check would be  a good
> > thing. Going to pam/nsswitch.conf would be even better.
> 
> Been that way for years, ever since I started supporting a SCO box
> oh these many years ago with a UUCP mail link. (System administration
> in the small company at the time was more than enough motivation to
> go to graduate school. Where I'm admining Lixia Zhang's machines. :-)

By 'this YP implementation' I meant FreeBSD/OpenBSD implementation- not
others.

> 
> Getting an nsswitch.conf-ish type file might not be such a bad thing
> and would consolidate some of the current set of hacks.
> 

yes.




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