Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:23:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: dhw@whistle.com (David Wolfskill) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stewart@wakko.visint.co.uk Subject: Re: Comments in the NIS master.passwd file Message-ID: <199807271923.VAA03906@internal> In-Reply-To: <199807271806.LAA25585@pau-amma.whistle.com> from David Wolfskill at "Jul 27, 98 11:06:11 am"
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> >Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:05:25 +0100 (BST) > >From: Stewart Morgan <stewart@wakko.visint.co.uk> > > > We've got a rather large master.passwd file which we used to quite > >happily break up into managable blocks with comments (ie lines beginning with > >a '#'). This works fine with the password routines like pwd_mkdb from > >2.2.6/7-stable. > > > Recently, we've moved over to NIS which moans about the comments, lots! > >The question is, why hasn't NIS been patched to ignore commenting like > >practically every other configuration file? Or has this already been delt with > >in -current and if not, could it be? > > Dunno about -current, but it seems to me that if this is an issue for > you, a small modification to /var/yp/Makefile (to strip the "comments" > from the MASTER file before doing anything else with the information) > would seem to be in order. I tried this also a while ago but fell over rpc.yppasswdd... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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