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Re: adduser and NIS



On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

> 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,

You still might want to have these weird entries in /etc/passwd for
supporting netgroups, for example. The +@netgroup, -@netgroup, -user,
+user entries in /etc/passwd ar IMHO much more flexible than to have only
the choice between all or nothing. And you can have this (I assume)  with
libc6, too, just use
passwd: compat
group: compat
in /etc/nsswitch.conf.  At least this does work with the NYS-enable libc.

Greetings, Swen



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