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Re: Does Linux NIS needs plus-entries?



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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Christian Hudon wrote:

> I seem to faintly remember someone saying on this list that Linux NIS
> doesn't need plus-entries in /etc/passwd and friends...
> 
> Is that really true? Because the latest nis package still says:

No, this is wrong. It was a bug in old versions of libc (4.5.x, I think).
This has been fixed, and now you need the entries (unless you have a NYS
enabled libc and use /etc/nsswitch.conf).

Greetings, Swen

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