From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 21 15: 8:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com (core1.hck.carroll.com [216.44.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A7937B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from damien@localhost) by 01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA65335; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:10:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from damien) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:10:57 -0400 From: Damien Tougas To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script Message-ID: <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com> References: <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009212009.e8LK9m113036@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200009212009.e8LK9m113036@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:09:47PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 02:09:47PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: >It's not a NIS bug, it's operator error. Not having local entries >for root and wheel is just asking for trouble. I would disagree with you there. We do not want to have root password files on hundreds of thin client workstations, if we have to change the root password for those workstations, we want to change it once. If the computer boots without network services, we don't care, because it dosen't have anything of value on it. When the network comes back up, just reboot it, these things are designed to be 'dumb'. -- Damien Tougas Systems Administrator Carroll-Net, Inc. http://www.carroll.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message