From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 17:13: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tartarus.telenet-ops.be (tartarus.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F2937B403 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 17:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fortuna.paeps.cx (D5762326.kabel.telenet.be [213.118.35.38]) by tartarus.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06A5D21779F; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 02:13:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server (juno.paeps.cx [10.0.0.2]) by fortuna.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5E91A53; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 02:13:02 +0200 (CEST) From: "Philip Paeps" To: "'Joe McGuckin'" , Subject: RE: YP/NIS problems Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 02:12:59 +0200 Message-ID: <002901c14f8d$fcdbc990$0200000a@paeps.cx> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-reply-to: <200110072244.f97MiGJ85319@monk.via.net> Importance: Normal 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 ? Check if /etc/master.passwd doesn't contain an entry like: +::::::::: and that rc.conf doesn't start the nis client (in other words: that ypbind(8) isn't running). - Philip -- Philip Paeps philip@paeps.cx http://www.vitaya.tv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message