From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 08:19:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26454 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:19:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26449 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:19:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id JAA27631; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:19:00 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199703061619.JAA27631@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: How do I create an NIS Master? To: langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:18:59 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703050537.TAA16769@caliban.dihelix.com> from "David Langford" at Mar 4, 97 07:37:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Langford asked: > Is there a version of vipw(8) that works with the passwd > files being in /var/yp? It makes editing the files much easier. No, but you don't really need one since you don't need to lock the files while editing. All vipw adds to vi is to lock the passwd database while you're editing; these locks are not supported with NIS. If you're using NIS/yp for serious work, I suggest getting the O'Reilly book _Administering NIS and NFS_, it has some pretty valuable information for setting up working NIS domains. The commands may not be 100% correct for the FreeBSD implementation, but with the help of the man pages, most of the mysteries of NIS should be revealed. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com