Re: adduser and NIS
Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
>
> I mentioned this problem in the list a while ago but I got no answers.
> Adduser doesn't work when you are a NIS client and I just filed a bug on
> this.
>
> What you can do is temporally remove the +::: and +::::: entries from
> /etc/group and /etc/passwd, run adduser and then replace the NIS entries
> in those files.
>
> Pedro I. Sanchez
> ----------------
>
> > Hi all !
> >
> > Can somebody tell me if there is a bug in adduser? I tried
> >to use it yesterday to add some new users to my system when, to my
> >surprise, iut failed. As a matter of fact, adduser had problems with
> > the
> >NIS entries of the files: /etc/passwd and /etc/group; it didn't remove
> >those entries to add the new users, so there was trouble. Therefore, I
> >had to remove then by hand and to add then latter (by hand too). Is >this
> >ok?
It's unlikely this will be fixed. I've noticed that something has to
be a pretty serious bug to be put in 1.3 now. I think (hope) that
libc6 uses the more modern /etc/nsswitch.conf rather than putting
weird entries into /etc/passwd, group, etc. to dictate the use of
NIS, DNS, etc.
Looking forward to Hamm and libc6,
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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