From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 8 10:04:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA07755 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 10:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07749 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 10:04:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA14908; Thu, 8 May 1997 19:04:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id TAA10073; Thu, 8 May 1997 19:03:42 +0200 (MEST) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199705081703.TAA10073@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: NIS/yp '+' entries in passwd and group In-Reply-To: <199705081121.NAA02208@tu.kielce.pl> from Andrzej Szydlo at "May 8, 97 01:21:42 pm" To: andrzej@tu.kielce.pl (Andrzej Szydlo) Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 19:03:41 +0200 (MEST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, andrzej@eden.tu.kielce.pl Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (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 > 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. +::::::::: (9 colons) is the correct entry for the last line. Lazier entries like +: (as it was possible to do under SunOS 4.1.x) seem to be no longer possible > > ypcat passwd gives me a complete list of entries. > > TIA > Andrzej > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de