From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 1: 1:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107D537B771 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 01:01:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-185.netcologne.de [213.168.64.185]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09393; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:01:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e79812Q00574; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:01:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:01:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: David Thiel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more fun NIS problems In-Reply-To: <39908AA1.4DB33D7@nexprise.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, David Thiel wrote: > Now, in the documentation, it says to copy master.passwd to > /var/yp. Should I take out the system accounts from that file, so > root isn't ever authenticated over NIS? It depends on your system, and which accounts you wish to distribute. If, for example, you only have FreeBSD servers, then distributing the system accounts would probably be OK, but if you have a Heinz 57 of OSes, then it probably would be a better idea to just share the user accounts and leave the system accounts local. You'll usually save yourself headaches in the future if you keep all system accounts local. > If I do take those out, how to I rebuild the yp stuff after > editing? Just do a make in /var/yp? Yep! "Makefile" also has a two or three other options you might want to take a look at... -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message