From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 18:03:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91E437B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4186F43FDF for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:03:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from madman.celabo.org (madman.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "madman.celabo.org", Issuer "celabo.org CA" (verified OK)) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA64F51; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:03:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: by madman.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0888378C66; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:03:07 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:03:07 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Philip Paeps Message-ID: <20030418010307.GA4001@madman.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Philip Paeps , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org References: <20030417141133.GA4155@madman.celabo.org> <20030418005043.GA657@juno.home.paeps.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030418005043.GA657@juno.home.paeps.cx> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i-ja.1 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new NSS X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 01:03:10 -0000 On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:50:43AM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote: > Just checking: are the new implementations (supposed to be) completely > compatible with the old ones, or should I be expecting 'anomalies'? They are supposed to be, except that I don't support old buggy behaviour. > It appears as though this is not completely backward-compatible with the > previous state of affairs. Having no nsswitch.conf and '+:::::::::' in > passwd(5) doesn't allow one to log in, and causes uids not to be turned into > names and vice versa. > > Perhaps a default nsswitch.conf should be provided to ensure that > people don't end up not being able to log into their machines :-) Oops. A default _is_ provided (compiled-in), but I set it incorrectly. The default was `files'. I've restored it to `compat', as it was previously. Thanks for the catch! Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se