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Re: NIS under RH 4.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrea Dell'Amico)
Thu Oct 24 13:04:30 1996

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:59:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From: "Andrea Dell'Amico" <adellam@zia.ms.it>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610241645.MAA22584@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Jeff Uphoff wrote:

> "AD" == Andrea Dell'Amico <adellam@zia.ms.it> writes:
> 
> AD> Try putting 
> 
> AD> passwd: compact
> AD> group: compact 
> 
> AD> in /etc/nsswitch.conf. In this way you should have the old nis behaviour.
> 
> You mean "compat"?

Yes, sorry. 

> 
> Thanks.  I'd forgotten about this; I've had to do it under Solaris
> before....

It's the same mechanism. I think is implemented starting from libc 5.3.x

> 
> --Up.
> 
> 

Cheers,
andrea



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