From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 8 09:41:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA06723 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 09:41:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA06718 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 09:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA01157; Thu, 8 May 1997 18:35:46 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199705081635.SAA01157@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: NIS/yp '+' entries in passwd and group In-Reply-To: <199705081121.NAA02208@tu.kielce.pl> from Andrzej Szydlo at "8. May. 97 13:21:10" To: andrzej@tu.kielce.pl (Andrzej Szydlo) Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 18:35:46 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, andrzej@eden.tu.kielce.pl X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It was Andrzej Szydlo who wrote: > Hi, > > How should '+' enries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group files look like > and how do I add them for NIS/yp to work? I use FreeBSD 2.2 on both > client and server. > I tried to add +:*:: and some other combinations using vipw, but it > always complained about wrong format. /etc/master.passwd (vipw): +::::::::: /etc/group: +::: > ypcat passwd gives me a complete list of entries. Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de