From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 1 7:12:58 2000 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 948B537B580 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 07:12:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA04072; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:12:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:12:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Kevin S. Brackett" Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS question Message-ID: <20000801091220.A4025@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000801012245.A19258@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from "Kevin S. Brackett" on Tue Aug 1 02:30:58 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message