Date: 22 Sep 2000 11:41:32 +0200 From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script Message-ID: <y9l66no69wz.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: Max Khon's message of "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:28:20 %2B0700 (NSS)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009221624500.44820-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
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>>>>> "Max" == Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> writes: Max> hi, there! Max> 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? Max> nope. getpwnam("root") always tries to find "root" in NIS maps Max> (and fails after a quite long delay miserably if for example NIS server is Max> unreachable) even if root:wheel exists in local passwd/group files. This doesn't happen here, at least not under 4.0-RELEASE. What's your /etc/passwd look like? -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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