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Re: NIS and usermod question



On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 11:07:37PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:

> I've got several mails that usermod from passwd.deb does not work on NIS
> systems. Can anybody tell me what to use on a Debian NIS system and how to
> recognise such a thing the best? (using /etc/nsswitch.conf?)

There is no standard API for determining the NSS source of a user's
password entry -- though perhaps there should be.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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