From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 9 23:36:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from xenetserver.harz.de (xenetserver.harz.de [193.159.181.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7601415196 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 23:36:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Matthias.Meyser@harz.de) Received: (from matthias@localhost) by xenetserver.harz.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA11825; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 08:36:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990710083629.A11798@xenetserver.harz.de> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 08:36:29 +0200 From: Matthias Meyser To: Ben Vaughn , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Master and non-split passwd files References: <000b01beca61$063f4200$05fc473f@prophetnetworks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <000b01beca61$063f4200$05fc473f@prophetnetworks.net>; from Ben Vaughn on Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:15:59PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 06:15:59PM -0500, Ben Vaughn wrote: > Hello again, > I just noticed that since I am using a /var/yp/master.passwd file, when > adding users I have to adduser on the master and then copy the entry over to > the /var/yp/master.passwd file. Does anyone know of how to keep these files > in sync with each other? I know its not advisable to make nis use > /etc/master.passwd, so I am avoiding that situation. If anyone knows of a > way to use /etc/master.passwd while stripping anything also be nice. Just configure your nisserver as a nisclient too. (Put a "+:::::::" in /etc/passwd /master.passwd....) then put all local UIDS in /etc/master.passwd and all net uids to /var/yp/master.passwd this works here just fine. CU matthias -- \\ // N N EEE TTT Matthias Meyser, Meyser@harz.de \\ // eee NN N E T Gesellschaft fuer Informations- und \X/ e e N N N EE T Kommunikationssysteme mbH // \\ e ee N NN E T 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Burgstaetter Strasse 6 // \\ eeee N N EEE T Telefon: +49-5323-94018 Fax: +49-5323-94011 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message