Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:03:07 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new NSS Message-ID: <20030418010307.GA4001@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20030418005043.GA657@juno.home.paeps.cx> References: <20030417141133.GA4155@madman.celabo.org> <20030418005043.GA657@juno.home.paeps.cx>
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:50:43AM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote: > Just checking: are the new implementations (supposed to be) completely > compatible with the old ones, or should I be expecting 'anomalies'? They are supposed to be, except that I don't support old buggy behaviour. > It appears as though this is not completely backward-compatible with the > previous state of affairs. Having no nsswitch.conf and '+:::::::::' in > passwd(5) doesn't allow one to log in, and causes uids not to be turned into > names and vice versa. > > Perhaps a default nsswitch.conf should be provided to ensure that > people don't end up not being able to log into their machines :-) Oops. A default _is_ provided (compiled-in), but I set it incorrectly. The default was `files'. I've restored it to `compat', as it was previously. Thanks for the catch! Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@celabo.org> http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se
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