From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 22 8:16:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64B614DD9 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:16:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA76195; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:16:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:16:05 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Peter Schwenk Cc: Brian Anderson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nis? Message-ID: <19991222101605.A76098@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3860E076.5C5ECF64@math.udel.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3860E076.5C5ECF64@math.udel.edu>; from "Peter Schwenk" on Wed Dec 22 09:30:14 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Dec 22), Peter Schwenk said: > Brian Anderson wrote: > > 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. > > 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 is a silly way to do this imho, since embedded + lines let you override fields coming from NIS, and also allow for netgroups. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message