svn commit: r224674 - head/etc

[Garrett Cooper]

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon at nitro.dk> wrote:
>
> 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.

non-POLA changes are bad, and this _definitely_ deserves an UPDATING
entry and/or further discussion.
Thanks,
-Garrett