From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 6:30:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F50015435 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 06:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA14255; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:30:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3860E076.5C5ECF64@math.udel.edu> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:30:14 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Anderson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nis? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Solaris and Linux use the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to determine the order in which they use various local (/etc/passwd) and distributed databases (NIS). Brian Anderson wrote: > nevermind... > > i forgot to add the +:::::::: to the passwd file. > > odd that i didn't have to do that on the linux or solaris machines. i > don't know nis well, so it's no surprise that i don't follow the different > os implementations well. > > does freebsd even use the nsswitch.conf file? > > brian > > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Brian Anderson wrote: > > > > > newbie freebsd question... > > > > i've got an nis domain set up here, to allow (in theory) the irix, > > solaris, linux and free bsd machines to all work happily together. > > > > i've got ypbind running at boot ok... i can ypcat passwd and get the list, > > but the nis users aren't showing up. (unknown login xxxxx) > > > > i created an /etc/nsswitch.conf, with > > passwd: files nis > > > > which is the setup that works in solaris and linux... > > > > > > > > so what stupid thing am i missing? > > > > > > > > > > > > brian > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > -------'---,---'--- bunicula@rcn.com ---,---'---,------- > AAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEE! Evil... Bright... Yellow... Thing...!! > That must be the Daystar. I've heard talk about it. > User Friendly, 12/8/1999 > --'--,--'--,-- http://diabolis.net --'--,--'--,-- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message