<quote who="Tom Cook"> > nate wrote: > [snip] >> /etc/passwd >> (after all the other entries) >> +::0:0:::/dev/null >> >> /etc/group >> (after all the other entries) >> +::: > > What does this do? Is this a cryptic reference to nis?
last time i read the NIS docs, it told the system to send a query to the NIS server if it reaches the end of the file and doesn't find anything ..i added the /dev/null in there to replace all account's shells with /dev/null so people can have login shells on other servers with NIS just not that one.. take out the /dev/null if you want to accept the shell that the NIS server passes along there should be docs for NIS in /usr/share/doc i'd check but the server that has NIS is going up and down(see my prev post about apt-get killing it), and i can only access the backed up data (/etc is one of the stuff that is backed up..) nate
