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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:17:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com (Bill Paul)
Cc:        wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Changed information for PR misc/245
Message-ID:  <199503170517.VAA17638@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503170410.UAA13179@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Bill Paul" at Mar 16, 95 08:10:10 pm

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> 
> Synopsis: all users imported from YP have UID 0
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> State-Changed-By: wpaul
> State-Changed-When: Thu Mar 16 20:06:37 PST 1995
> State-Changed-Why: 
> There is no bug: the reason this is happening is that you have not
> configured things correctly. To turn on client access to the passwd map,
> you have to use vipw to add a line to /etc/master.passwd that says
> '+::::::::: (that's a plus sign and nine colons). Using just a
> plus sign doesn't work.

Perhaps the code that reads /etc/master.passwd file and recognizes the
bogos "+" only line and does all this strange stuff should be fixed to
emit a syslog error!!!

Otherwise we are going to see this bug report again!

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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