From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 2 17:40:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6055150EF for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:40:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA14501; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:40:10 -0800 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:40:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Scott Michel Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: YP/NIS and passwd weirdness In-Reply-To: <199904030138.RAA62524@mordred.cs.ucla.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Scott Michel wrote: > > Umm- it's never supposed to have been with a '*' in it for this YP > > implementation, I believe. Fixing the security check would be a good > > thing. Going to pam/nsswitch.conf would be even better. > > Been that way for years, ever since I started supporting a SCO box > oh these many years ago with a UUCP mail link. (System administration > in the small company at the time was more than enough motivation to > go to graduate school. Where I'm admining Lixia Zhang's machines. :-) By 'this YP implementation' I meant FreeBSD/OpenBSD implementation- not others. > > Getting an nsswitch.conf-ish type file might not be such a bad thing > and would consolidate some of the current set of hacks. > yes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message