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Date:      Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:04:44 +0200
From:      Enrique Ayesta Perojo <eayesta@portugalete.uned.es>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS group mQuestion
Message-ID:  <200710181404.45423.eayesta@portugalete.uned.es>
In-Reply-To: <200710181241.01627.eayesta@portugalete.uned.es>
References:  <200710181241.01627.eayesta@portugalete.uned.es>

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> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to setup a NIS Server under FreeBSD 6.2 to serve Linux Clients
> (CentOS4). The main problem i have is with the group map. When FreeBSD
> generates the maps it gets the info for this from /etc/group, which gets
> imported from the Linux clients.
>
> My question is: Is there anyway to avoid this? I would like to use a
> different group file, not the one in /etc in the same way it's done with
> master.passwd
>
> Best regards

Hi again, i'll answer to myself. To change the way NIS works in FreeBSD i have 
just to edit /var/yp/Makefile and change the place where NIS takes the source 
files. I just had to read the Makefile first to send the question to the 
list!

Thanks again



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