From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 19 11:03:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA03837 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:03:18 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA03829 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:03:14 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA28401; Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:53:16 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9507191753.AA28401@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: getpwent() YP/NIS bugu To: iidpwr@lightlink.satcom.net (Imperial Irrigation District) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 11:53:15 MDT Cc: jim@reptiles.org, wpaul@skynet.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507190603.XAA13823@lightlink.satcom.net> from "Imperial Irrigation District" at Jul 18, 95 11:03:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.