Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 23:41:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS Setup Question Message-ID: <199608040341.XAA03565@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960803170409.7559E-100000@quagmire.ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Aug 3, 96 05:05:28 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Marc G. Fournier had to walk into mine and say: > On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Mark Murray wrote: > > > "Marc G. Fournier" wrote: > > > > Problem with the SNAP? Dunno. I run -current, and I have that man page. > > What does man -k nis give? It should give nothing. Man -k nis will only be of interest if and when I finish NIS+. > Might be...man -k lists yppasswdd and not rpc.yppasswd, but > there is no yppasswdd program, only rpc.yppasswd *shrug* You have hosed your man pages or you need to re-run makewhatis (or, less likely, somebody screwed up the building of man pages in the distribution -- can't verify this as I haven't tried the SNAP yet). I promise you that there is an rpc.yppasswdd(8) man page. The original yppasswdd program in 2.1.x was called yppasswdd because that's what Olaf Kirch, the guy who wrote it, decided to name it. Since it wasn't my program, I preserved the name given to it by the author. Later, when I wrote my own server from scratch, I chose to call it rpc.yppasswdd, thus the program name and man page name are now different in -current. I tried to avoid changing the option flags from the old version, but I got stuck because I wanted to use the -m flag for 'multidomain' mode, but I had used it previously for a pointer to the 'master.passwd' template file in the old version. Finally I just said 'the heck with it' and I used -m for multidomain mode and substituted -t for the old -m (-t for 'specify Template file'). If you ever find the rpc.yppasswdd(8) man page, you may be surprised by all the new things it does. > > > > What does your "+" entry in your passwd file look like? > > > > > > +:+:::::::: > > ^ > > > > WTF is this? > > > Ack..%^%#$^@^%@$^..that was it :( Fixed now, thanks... *sigh* I keep telling people to read the damn passwd(5) man page and yet nobody ever seems to do it. It even says in big letters not to do stuff like this and everything. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "If you're ever in trouble, go to the CTR. Ask for Bill. He will help you." =============================================================================
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