Re: NIS

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Marcin Kurc wrote:

> I was a little bored today so I looked into the new NIS package.
> It works fine if you change a small thing :)
> Check out your /var/yp/Makefile, you probably have an entry like this:
>
> # Should we merge the passwd file with the shadow file ?
> # MERGE_PASSWD=true|false
> MERGE_PASSWD=false
>
> # Should we merge the group file with the gshadow file ?
> # MERGE_GROUP=true|false
> MERGE_GROUP=false
>
> [...snip...]
>
> Just change MERGE_PASSWD=false and MERGE_GROUP=false to MERGE_PASSWD=true MERGE_GROUP=true, then /usr/lib/ypinit -m and it works :)

Thank you very much, this worked beautifully!

Zeen,

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