hi, there!
On 22 Sep 2000, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote:
> >> > We have a similar problem with the combination of NIS and ipfw. The details
> >> > (and a patch) are in conf/18521:
> >> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18521 - nobody has touched it
> >> > since its submission in May.
> >>
> >> I've never used NIS, but isn't this either a bug/missing feature
> >> in NIS or a misconfiguaration on your part?
> >>
> >> Shouldn't NIS have a "first found" option so that root:wheel doesn't
> >> need NIS resolution?
>
> Max> nope. getpwnam("root") always tries to find "root" in NIS maps
> Max> (and fails after a quite long delay miserably if for example NIS server is
> Max> unreachable) even if root:wheel exists in local passwd/group files.
>
> This doesn't happen here, at least not under 4.0-RELEASE. What's your
> /etc/passwd look like?
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root:xxxxxx:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/tcsh
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this happens on wide range of FreeBSD versions from 3.3-RELEASE to
4.1-STABLE (24 Jul 2000)
/fjoe
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