From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 8 12: 4:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (zmamail01.zma.compaq.com [161.114.64.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F8C37B8BA for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:04:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael.waite@compaq.com) Received: by zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 2455B5F1; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:04:15 -0500 (EST) Received: from exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net (exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net [16.103.129.42]) by zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB5972D; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:04:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:04:14 -0500 Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C84@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> From: "Waite, Michael" To: "'mjacob@feral.com'" Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD and NIS Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:04:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org agreed. ----Mike -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Jacob [mailto:mjacob@feral.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 2:57 PM To: Waite, Michael Cc: Andrew Gallatin; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD and NIS > /etc/nsswitch.conf does work but the other FreeBSD systems that I have get > along quite well without it. Well, sure- but locating your admin file preferences in one file is A Good Thing(tm), and FreeBSD doesn't support this (and should). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message