On Thursday 20 February 2003 16:45, Scott Mitchell wrote: > You would add one line to the end of your /etc/master.passwd to tell it to > pick up the entries from /var/yp/master.passwd as well (assuming you want > your NIS users to be able to log on to the NIS server). Any users defined > in /etc/master.passwd will be 'local' users, those in /var/yp/master.passwd > will be exported to NIS clients. You can do a similar things with the > groups database as well.
??? I know that. But still, you first need to copy /etc/master.passwd to /var/yp, then edit /var/yp/master.passwd before exporting to clients. I think it is easier to say "hey, just pick up UID higher then 1000 in /etc/master.passwd then create passwd.by*" > pw(8) will let you set max/min UID and GID ranges and will happily > manipulate both the local and NIS passwd files. Allright, I'll have a look at it. > You want to read the pw(8), passwd(5) and group(5) manpages (especially the > bits on NIS/YP interaction) and section 19.8 of the handbook: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nis.html I already have... otherwise I wouldn't ask on the list ;-) Thanks for the help... Antoine To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
