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Date:      Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:12:20 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        "Kevin S. Brackett" <ksb@abyss.net>
Cc:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS question
Message-ID:  <20000801091220.A4025@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008010229010.-417761@nightmare.abyss.net>; from "Kevin S. Brackett" on Tue Aug  1 02:30:58 GMT 2000
References:  <20000801012245.A19258@dan.emsphone.com> <Pine.WNT.4.21.0008010229010.-417761@nightmare.abyss.net>

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In the last episode (Aug 01), Kevin S. Brackett said:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > He's saying he wants the shell on "pop.host.com" to be forced to
> > /bin/emailonly.  That's easy; just add an override to your NIS include
> > line:
> > 
> > +::::::/sbin/nologin
> > 
> 
> okay that's exactly what i wanted, now... if i have a user local to the
> machine, and -username:::::: it, will it read from the local
> database? this would be so some users can still be able to log into
> systems to be able to remote maintence and such... if that works, then nis
> is looking like a go. :)

+ and - entries only apply to NIS, and they only apply at the point
they are inserted to /etc/passwd.  If you have local user entries above
your NIS + lines, they are used before NIS.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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