svn commit: r224674 - head/etc
Simon L. B. Nielsen
simon at nitro.dk
Sun Aug 7 20:51:33 UTC 2011
On 6 Aug 2011, at 11:16, Doug Barton wrote:
> Author: dougb
> Date: Sat Aug 6 09:16:53 2011
> New Revision: 224674
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224674
>
> Log:
> Rather than edit the nsswitch.conf file based on ${MK_NIS} == "no"
> comment out the NIS _compat options by default, but leave them in
> the file for the convenience of users who want to enable it.
>
> Update the comment in the file accordingly.
This disables NIS by default which is rather surprising considering there has been no prior (which I have been able to find) discussion of this.
At the _VERY_ least people need to be warned about this loudly. Unless you can show this really helps non-NIS users this is IMO a bad idea.
Yes, if you hand merge all /etc files this won't be a problem... but I don't since life's to short for that, so this change just broke login on one of the FreeBSD.org during an upgrade.
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Simon L. B. Nielsen
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