From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 22:00:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA18873 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 22:00:26 -0700 Received: from DATAPLEX.NET (SHARK.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA18867 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 22:00:24 -0700 Received: from [199.183.109.242] by DATAPLEX.NET with SMTP (MailShare 1.0fc5); Wed, 9 Aug 1995 00:00:20 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 00:00:22 -0500 To: "Charles N. Owens" From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: NIS (yp) and login recompile? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk kerberos: {42} cat /etc/passwd root:*:0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh daemon:*:1:31:Owner of many system processes:/root: bin:*:3:7:Binaries Commands and Source,,,:/:/nonexistent ftp:*:10:10:Ftp System:/pub:/bin/csh ppp:*:99:65534:PPP User:/root:/usr/local/bin/ppplogin rkw:*:1000:1000:Richard Wackerbarth:/home/rkw:/bin/csh +:*:0:0::: The last entry tells the scanner to go to the NIS database for more entries. I have found that I need a few local entries to 1) protect me in case the NIS is down and 2) to speed up some very common lookups. It seems to work. I'm sure I will hear if I am wrong. :-) ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net