From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 15 16:44:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA26061 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA26036 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA02903; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:44:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:44:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: CyberPeasant cc: Heinrich Langos , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: renaming of usernames and homedirectories In-Reply-To: <199805132200.SAA07148@castor.loco.net> 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 Wed, 13 May 1998, CyberPeasant wrote: > All bets are off if the BSD machine is running NIS. I don't know squat > about NIS. FYI -- make the changes on the NIS master then push out the changes. The yp makefile will rebuild the databases for you. If the NIS server & client are FreeBSD machines it'll serve the password .db files and not the raw master.passwd. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message