hi, there!
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Max Khon 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
> [...]
> +:::::::::
> --- cut here ---
>
> this happens on wide range of FreeBSD versions from 3.3-RELEASE to
> 4.1-STABLE (24 Jul 2000)
of course it finds "root" entry in local passwd after it fails to find it
in NIS maps (I should be more precise).
/fjoe
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