NSSwitch settings on 5.4

Ian Moore no-spam at swiftdsl.com.au
Mon May 23 03:34:37 PDT 2005


On Monday 16 May 2005 18:41, Uwe Laverenz wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:18:09AM +0930, Ian Moore wrote:
> > passwd: files ldap
> > group: files ldap
>
> This is correct and sufficient for local files + ldap.
>
> > On my 5.4-Release system, the default nsswitch.conf is:
>
> AFAIK there never  was a "default" nsswitch.conf in FreeBSD 5.4, I always
> had to create a new one from scratch.

Well there was one sitting on my system in /etc & I certainly didn't create 
it! This system started life as 5.2-RELEASE, so maybe it crept in earlier on?
>
> > group: compat
> > group_compat: nis
> > hosts: files dns
> > networks: files
> > passwd: compat
> > passwd_compat: nis
> > shells: files
>
> Nope, delete this.
>

Thanks, that got rid of the error messages.

> > Using the 'compat ldap' version, I get errors in /var/log/messages:
> >   May 13 22:42:26 daemon -csh: NSSWITCH(nsparser): /etc/nsswitch.conf 
> > line 1: 'compat' used with other sources
> >   May 13 22:42:26 daemon -csh: NSSWITCH(nsparser): /etc/nsswitch.conf 
> > line 5: 'compat' used with other sources
>
> man nsswitch.conf
Duh! I forgot to check for a man page for the conf file.
Thanks for your help,

Cheers,
-- 
Ian
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