Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:17:40 -0400 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: mitayai@bricsnet.com, Freebsd-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: adduser & NIS Message-ID: <20000918121740.B1102@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <y9lvgvtln1b.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>; from sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:47:44PM %2B0200 References: <NEBBIEGPMLMKDBMMICFNKEFMCPAA.mitayai@bricsnet.com> <y9lvgvtln1b.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:47:44PM +0200, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: > > Unfortunately, there's a race with yppasswdd this way. I have not > been able to find a way around it. In principle, yppasswdd performs > locking, but how it does this is undocumented, and there is no adduser > client which respects the same type of locking. Depending on the size > of your installation, it may or may not be a problem (it is here). Oops, wasn't aware of that. My NIS domain consists of exactly two (and on occasion a third) machines, so I don't have a lot of experience with large installations. Thanks for the correction. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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