From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 15 12:13:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA21057 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 12:13:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA21052 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 12:13:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA04230; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:00:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701152000.NAA04230@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Netscape and NIS To: pgilley@metronet.com (Phil Gilley) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:00:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Phil Gilley" at Jan 15, 97 09:51:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > When you send mail, Netscape opens /etc/pwd.db and > searches through it. Since it can't find any user account information > (because it's in the NIS database not the local password database) > Netscape assumes there's some sort of error. As I understand things, > Netscape uses an old version of BSDI for their development and old > versions of BSDI didn't support NIS so Netscape doesn't know how to > handle it. Alternately, you could have a mountable directory containing the pwd.db, and put a symlink to it in /etc. It will use the pwd.db from the local host coming up, until it NFS mounts the pwd.db from the remote host, after which symlink references will go ther instead of the local db. This assumes the NIS pwd.db contains standard system accounts, and that the administrative accounts are centrally administered. Yes, ideally Netscape would develop on FreeBSD and release for all other BSD platforms. To encourage that, FreeBSD needs to better support threading (like BSDi already does; they are ahead of FreeBSD in terms of integration there, though they lag for shared library and NIS, etc.). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.