From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 14:38: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from loki.ideaglobal.com (loki.ideaglobal.com [194.36.20.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211D737BB42 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 14:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kiril@loki.ideaglobal.com) Received: (from kiril@localhost) by loki.ideaglobal.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA19467; Sat, 13 May 2000 21:45:05 GMT (envelope-from kiril) From: Kiril Mitev Message-Id: <200005132145.VAA19467@loki.ideaglobal.com> Subject: Re: /usr/bin/passwd hangs ... In-Reply-To: <20000513150604.B47176@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> from "Crist J. Clark" at "May 13, 2000 3: 6: 4 pm" To: cjclark@home.com Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:45:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kiril@ideaglobal.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 04:31:03PM +0000, Kiril Mitev wrote: > > this on a more-or-less brand new install of f-bsd 4.o release > > > > after I finished the install, i logged-on as root and created a user account > > > > after that i tried to set the account's password > > > > passwd USER > > > > > > that command hangs for about10-15 minutes before coming up with the next > > prompt.... > > > > what IS it looking for and can I disable that , please ?? > > Do you have NIS turned on? > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > Good question .. why would it be turned on by the default install ???? Will check anyway, thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message