On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <si...@nitro.dk> wrote: > > On 6 Aug 2011, at 11:16, Doug Barton wrote: > >> Author: dougb >> Date: Sat Aug 6 09:16:53 2011 >> New Revision: 224674 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224674 >> >> Log: >> Rather than edit the nsswitch.conf file based on ${MK_NIS} == "no" >> comment out the NIS _compat options by default, but leave them in >> the file for the convenience of users who want to enable it. >> >> Update the comment in the file accordingly. > > This disables NIS by default which is rather surprising considering there has > been no prior (which I have been able to find) discussion of this. > > At the _VERY_ least people need to be warned about this loudly. Unless you > can show this really helps non-NIS users this is IMO a bad idea. > > Yes, if you hand merge all /etc files this won't be a problem... but I don't > since life's to short for that, so this change just broke login on one of the > FreeBSD.org during an upgrade.
non-POLA changes are bad, and this _definitely_ deserves an UPDATING entry and/or further discussion. Thanks, -Garrett _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
