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To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>,
	freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>,
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Subject: Re: NIS strangeness
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 07 Jun 1999 11:46:58 +0200
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John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> writes:
> If it was in /etc/master.passwd, yes.  In /etc/passwd, no.  At least, I run a
> lab of 80+ machines running NIS over FreeBSD and Digital Unix and all the
> FreeBSD clients have +:::::::: in /etc/master.passwd and +:*::::::: in
> /etc/passwd.

/etc/passwd is a dummy. It isn't used for anything.

DES
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