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Re: NIS vs. Network Manager



On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:13:17PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:01:00PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Recent versions of NIS have included support in ypbind for Network
> > Manager.  This support currently causes ypbind to disable NIS client
> > functionality when Network Manager reports that the computer is
> > disconnected.  Unfortunately, Network Manager is frequently installed on
> > systems where it is not in use and which have network configurations
> > which it does not support.  On many of these systems the result is that
> > Network Manager runs and reports that the system is disconnected from
> > the network, rendering ypbind unusable.

> Please consider nis 3.17-6 for etch.  It works around this problem by
> default using this message:

> >  - Disable Network Manager support at runtime by default.  The
> >    disadvantage here is that this would be done by disabling a
> >    frequently edited conffile so many users would not pick up the new
> >    default on upgrade and would therefore be affected by the integration
> >    problems.

> (in actual fact it's a configuration file, not a conffile.)  I'll submit
> an update to the release notes shortly.

Unblocked.  (dbus support in nis? <shudder>)

Thanks,
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