From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 18 09:36:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA29185 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:36:08 -0700 Received: from iguana.reptiles.org (iguana.reptiles.org [142.57.253.130]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA29179 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:35:51 -0700 Received: by iguana.reptiles.org (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.8) id ; Tue, 18 Jul 95 12:35 EDT Message-Id: From: jim@reptiles.org (Jim Mercer) Subject: Re: getpwent() YP/NIS bugu To: wpaul@skynet.cdrom.com (A boy and his worm gear) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 12:35:04 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507181331.JAA15281@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "A boy and his worm gear" at Jul 18, 95 09:30:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1160 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > in 1.1.5.1 i had babybop set up as a NIS client off of one of my sunos > > 4.1.1_u1 machines. worked fine. > > Babybop? *shudder* yeah, and i have a barney too, and i-love-you.you-love-me is a cname for babybop. 8^) > If you want to set up normal NIS client operations, use this: > +::::::::: > _NOT_ this: > +:*:0:0:::::: gah, i gues RTFM is the key word for today. sorry. > I'll look into this, but in the meantime, why not just take the damn '*' > out of your master.passwd file? This isn't strictly a bug since the > behavior you're seeing is expected. It isn't documented though, which is > something I need to fix before the next release. i took the * out, and rebuilt the original getpwent, and all is well. it is kinda documented in passwd(5). -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ If you can read this, you are probably standing on the tracks. ] [ A train will be along momentarily to crush you. ] [ - fine print of an ad in a Toronto subway tunnel ]