Peter Ross wrote:
> On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
> > How do I set things up so that either it will recognize group
> > memberships on the NIS server, or else allow me to add NIS users to
> > local groups? Do I need to eliminate local groups like floppy, mail,
> > etc?
> >
> You are in luck, I just set NIS up yesterday, and encountered a similar
> problem.
>
> In /var/yp/Makefile, you need to set MINGID to be some lower value to
> get the groups with smaller group ids, being shared across the systems.
Thank you very much, this worked perfectly!
Adam Powell http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/
Thomas B. King Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering
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