On Mon, 16 May 2005 23:35:40, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:29:50PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I must confess that I have absolutely no idea of what the bug > > submitter is requesting in http://bugs.debian.org/134473 > > > > Has anyone a rough idea? > > A new option to the low level tools allowing to specify on which files to > work on. > > Rational: on nis server, you don't want to allow the user of your company to > log onto your nis server, you want them to be added in the DB managed by the > nis server. You don't want to modify /etc/passwd but > /var/yp/ypfiles/etc/passwd. > > At least, that's what I understand from this mail, I've no personal opinion, > beside the relative simplicity of the corresponding patch. > > I'm CCing debian NIS packager (hello Miquel) to see what he think about it. > [For the context, shadow packaging just changed into a team effort, and > we're doing massive bug triage]
Well actually nowadays Mark Brown does most (the last few releases, all) of the work on NIS. But it's probably not a bad idea to make the tools more flexible. It sure beats vi :) Mike.
