From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 6:56:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from charon.shaghaus.org (209-6-187-126.c6-0.wth-ubr1.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com [209.6.187.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6449315224 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 06:56:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bunicula@rcn.com) Received: from charon (IDENT:bunicula@charon [192.168.2.1]) by charon.shaghaus.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA21720; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:00:51 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:00:50 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Anderson X-Sender: bunicula@charon.diabolis.net To: Peter Schwenk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nis? In-Reply-To: <3860E076.5C5ECF64@math.udel.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Peter Schwenk wrote: > 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). which makes sense why my nsswitch.conf i added to the freebsd machine didn't really get me anywhere. but now it works, so i'm happy... *except that the irix machine doesn't have nis support installed, but that's another story all together... time to find the irix cds...* brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message