Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 16:29:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: questions list FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrzej Szydlo <andrzej@tu.kielce.pl> Subject: Re: NIS/yp '+' entries in passwd and group Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.93.970508162102.23123L-100000@dingo.its.enc.edu>
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Jim Service <jservice@OHT.Hydro.ON.CA> writes:
>>>>> "Andrzej" == Andrzej Szydlo <andrzej@tu.kielce.pl> writes:
>
> Andrzej> Hi,
> Andrzej> How should '+' enries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group files look like
> Andrzej> and how do I add them for NIS/yp to work? I use FreeBSD 2.2 on both
> Andrzej> client and server.
> Andrzej> I tried to add +:*:: and some other combinations using vipw, but
> Andrzej> it always complained about wrong format.
> This has worked for me. Put "+:" on the last line by itself to include
> *all*
> the yp users or "+user:::::::::" to include a particular user called
> "user".
> Vipw will complain about bad entries so you must edit /etc/master.passwd
> by hand. Make a backup copy of /etc/master.passwd. Carefully edit
> /etc/master.passwd and add the NIS entries. Execute pwd_mkdb
> /etc/master.passwd to "register" them. If all goes well then cd ~user
> should do something on the client machine.
Hmmm... in my experience if you use the correct format vipw will not
complain at all.
For all users I use "+:::::::::"
For one users I use "+user:::::::::" (same as mentioned above)
Works like a charm...
Note: (and this confused me at first) when vipw processes these entries,
the corresponding entries that it creates in /etc/passwd are:
+:*:0:0:::
+user:*:0:0:::
(Note that I'm not using 2.1.8 or 2.2, so things _could_ be different now)
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