Re: adduser and NIS
Hi, Talking about /etc/nsswitch.conf: /etc/nsswitch.conf is part of the package base-files of bo. There are no manual pages, however. Is there any program (parts of the nis package ?) that take care about nsswitch.conf? Or is it just a sneak preview of a future NYS/NIS+ package? Thanks, Thomas -- Th. Gebhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- HRZ, Hans Meerwein Strasse,Phone: +49-6421/28-3572 D-35032 Marburg, Germany Fax :-6994 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser and NIS
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: It's unlikely this will be fixed. I've noticed that something has to be a pretty serious bug to be put in 1.3 now. I think (hope) that libc6 uses the more modern /etc/nsswitch.conf rather than putting weird entries into /etc/passwd, group, etc. to dictate the use of NIS, DNS, etc. Looking forward to Hamm and libc6, You still might want to have these weird entries in /etc/passwd for supporting netgroups, for example. The [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], -user, +user entries in /etc/passwd ar IMHO much more flexible than to have only the choice between all or nothing. And you can have this (I assume) with libc6, too, just use passwd: compat group: compat in /etc/nsswitch.conf. At least this does work with the NYS-enable libc. Greetings, Swen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser and NIS
Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: I mentioned this problem in the list a while ago but I got no answers. Adduser doesn't work when you are a NIS client and I just filed a bug on this. What you can do is temporally remove the +::: and +: entries from /etc/group and /etc/passwd, run adduser and then replace the NIS entries in those files. Pedro I. Sanchez Hi all ! Can somebody tell me if there is a bug in adduser? I tried to use it yesterday to add some new users to my system when, to my surprise, iut failed. As a matter of fact, adduser had problems with the NIS entries of the files: /etc/passwd and /etc/group; it didn't remove those entries to add the new users, so there was trouble. Therefore, I had to remove then by hand and to add then latter (by hand too). Is this ok? It's unlikely this will be fixed. I've noticed that something has to be a pretty serious bug to be put in 1.3 now. I think (hope) that libc6 uses the more modern /etc/nsswitch.conf rather than putting weird entries into /etc/passwd, group, etc. to dictate the use of NIS, DNS, etc. Looking forward to Hamm and libc6, -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
