Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:16:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> Cc: Brian Anderson <bunicula@rcn.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nis? Message-ID: <19991222101605.A76098@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3860E076.5C5ECF64@math.udel.edu>; from "Peter Schwenk" on Wed Dec 22 09:30:14 GMT 1999 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.9912212346110.15987-100000@charon.diabolis.net> <3860E076.5C5ECF64@math.udel.edu>
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In the last episode (Dec 22), Peter Schwenk said: > Brian Anderson wrote: > > i forgot to add the +:::::::: to the passwd file. > > > > odd that i didn't have to do that on the linux or solaris machines. > > i don't know nis well, so it's no surprise that i don't follow the > > different os implementations well. > > Solaris and Linux use the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to determine the > order in which they use various local (/etc/passwd) and distributed > databases (NIS). .. which is a silly way to do this imho, since embedded + lines let you override fields coming from NIS, and also allow for netgroups. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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