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Re: NIS under RH 4.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrea Dell'Amico)
Thu Oct 24 12:07:24 1996

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:10:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From: "Andrea Dell'Amico" <adellam@zia.ms.it>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610241550.LAA22091@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Jeff Uphoff wrote:

> "EL" == Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu> writes:
> 
> EL> That's for standard NIS with resolv+, not for NYS. I don't think any of
> EL> the + lines work in system database files.
> 
> Blah!  What provides the equivalent functionality then?  (I'm still
> using pedestrian old NIS/resolv+ here.)

Try putting 

passwd: compact
group: compact 

in /etc/nsswitch.conf. In this way you should have the old nis behaviour.

> 
> --Up.
> 

Cheers,
andrea



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