Sincronize /etc/passwd and /etc/yp/passwd.master

Antoine Jacoutot ajacoutot at lphp.org
Mon Apr 28 08:15:35 PDT 2003


Selon Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>: 
> My solution is to never put a user in both /etc and /var/yp.  Userids 
> that are created by ports go into /etc, and all "real" users go into 
> /var/yp. 
 
Yes, OK, but then you have to make your NIS server a client too, right ? 
Otherwise, users authenticating directly to the server (like for mail or 
so...) will not be allowed to log in... or am I wrong ? 
 
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