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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
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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