From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 21 13:10: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (207-167-15-66.dsl.worldgate.ca [207.167.15.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7397B37B424 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e8LK9m113036; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:09:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009212009.e8LK9m113036@orthanc.ab.ca> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Lars Eggert , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:01:10 PDT." <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:09:47 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Alfred" == Alfred Perlstein writes: Alfred> Shouldn't NIS have a "first found" option so that Alfred> root:wheel doesn't need NIS resolution? It does. Nothing goes to NIS until the magic + entry is seen. (I'm not sure exactly how nsswitch.conf will change this, but presumably you would list 'files" before 'nis'.) Alfred> I'd rather see NIS fixed than the rc system hacked to Alfred> death because of NIS brain death. It's not a NIS bug, it's operator error. Not having local entries for root and wheel is just asking for trouble. --lyndon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message