Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 21:13:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: brian@visionpro.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YP Passwords Message-ID: <19990606211309.A72273@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199906070120.VAA11220@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from "Crist J. Clark" on Sun Jun 6 21:20:27 GMT 1999 References: <375A967A.D7F1BFDC@visionpro.com> <199906070120.VAA11220@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 06), Crist J. Clark said: > Brian D. McGrew wrote, > > I'm using FreeBSD-3.1 RELEASE. I setup my server as a > > ypserver. Everything seemed to go smoothly. From the server > > 'bigguy', I can ypcat all the map files, and ypwhich says it's > > bound to it's self 'bigguy'. After the setup, all my local user > > logins had been COPIED from /etc/passwd to /var/yp/passwd. This > > was a good thing.. So, I removed all the local stuff from > > /etc/passwd. > > [SNIP] > > You did add a, > > +::::::::: > > Line to the editted /etc/passwd file? Of course you meant to say: > You did run vipw as root and add a > > +::::::::: > > line? Nothing in FreeBSD uses /etc/passwd. (If you find something that does, submit a big report :) -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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