From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 2:29:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEFAC37B422 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:29:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA44991; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:28:20 +0700 (NSS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:28:20 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Lars Eggert , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script In-Reply-To: <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 hi, there! On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > We have a similar problem with the combination of NIS and ipfw. The details > > (and a patch) are in conf/18521: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18521 - nobody has touched it > > since its submission in May. > > I've never used NIS, but isn't this either a bug/missing feature > in NIS or a misconfiguaration on your part? > > Shouldn't NIS have a "first found" option so that root:wheel doesn't > need NIS resolution? nope. getpwnam("root") always tries to find "root" in NIS maps (and fails after a quite long delay miserably if for example NIS server is unreachable) even if root:wheel exists in local passwd/group files. /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message