From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 15:42:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monk.via.net (monk.via.net [209.81.2.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C98537B401 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:42:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joe@localhost) by monk.via.net (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f97MiGJ85319 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe) From: Joe McGuckin Message-Id: <200110072244.f97MiGJ85319@monk.via.net> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:43:15 -0700 (PDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: YP/NIS problems X-Mailer: Ishmail 1.3.1-970608-bsdi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm *not* running NIS, yet when I run passwd, it's trying to connect to a ypbind server. I have to wait about a minute for all this to time out before I can proceed with the passwd change. How does passwd determine if your system is running NIS? Some magic cookie in the password file ? If so, what is it ? Thanks, Joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message