Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:53:15 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: iidpwr@lightlink.satcom.net (Imperial Irrigation District) Cc: jim@reptiles.org, wpaul@skynet.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getpwent() YP/NIS bugu Message-ID: <9507191753.AA28401@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199507190603.XAA13823@lightlink.satcom.net> from "Imperial Irrigation District" at Jul 18, 95 11:03:57 pm
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> Yes, I have the same problem too. I use +:*:0:0:::::: instead of +::::::::: > The real problem of this I cannot find this in any documentation that comes > with FreeBSD. Documentation this certainly would help promote FreeBSD. > Little thing can makes a big different. I cannot tell you in words how > frustrated I was while I cannot make NIS works right. I have UnixWare, AIX > running NIS in my office. The "real problem" (tm) is that once it sees the "+" it shouldn't care about the rest of it. The place this is broken is in the pwmkdb, which should assume the rest to the end of the line *for you* when you put in a naked '+:' (not just a naked '+', followed by anything, since netgroups are identified that way). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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