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Re: NIS under RH 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Thu Oct 24 11:01:51 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:59:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Jeff Uphoff wrote:
> "EAT" == Eduardo Augusto Trettel <trettel@fee.unicamp.br> writes:
>
> EAT> Hi,
> EAT> The new NYS cliente code built into libc seens to work fine,
> EAT> but when I try to enable just a few logins, i.e, add the following
> EAT> to /etc/passwd,
>
> EAT> +luser::::::
>
> EAT> it still recognizes ALL the accounts listed on the NIS server.
> EAT> Anyone knows how to avoid this?
>
> Just a pre-first-cup-of-morning-coffee-quick-guess at a hack:
>
> Add
>
> +:*:::::/bin/false
>
> to the end of /etc/passwd.
That's for standard NIS with resolv+, not for NYS. I don't think any of
the + lines work in system database files.
-- Elliot
A: "Talk about stupidity!"
B: "Who, you?"
A: "No, me!"
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