From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 27 13:31:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA08855 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA08849 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA08900; Mon, 27 May 1996 13:27:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605272027.NAA08900@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Adduser program in C To: green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Charles Green) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 13:27:40 -0700 (MST) Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605261510.LAA10532@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "Charles Green" at May 26, 96 11:10:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A feature I'd like to see added is the ability to detect NIS and > put the new account into the NIS database. I assume you will be running this on the NIS server, then? If so, it's automatic. If not, it's not going to happen. You can't add an NIS user from anywhere but the NIS master. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.