From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 21 13:16:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 576E437B42C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:16:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13cClb-0002Nc-00; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:16:23 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:16:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Lars Eggert , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script In-Reply-To: <200009212009.e8LK9m113036@orthanc.ab.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "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 No, there is a well known problem with the NIS client. Even for local entries, the NIS server is still consulted. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message