Re: linux NIS -- user Includes/excludes

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From: Thorsten Kukuk
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:00

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Hi,

craig Armour <c.armour@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,

> I'm trying to impliment NIS under linux.  Currently, the server machine
> I'm using is a RH6.0 box and the client machines are RH6.1

> on the Client machines I have set in the nsswitch file the following
> settings for passwd: group: etc...

> passwd:     compat       
> shadow:     compat
> group:      compat

> passwd_compat: nis
> group_compat: nis
> shadow_compat: nis

> I have added the lines ( or similar )

> +::::::
> -fred
> +craig:::::/home2/craig:
> +

> to my /etc/passwd file and yet the user includes/excludes still seem to
> fail to work.

RedHat uses pam_pwdb/libpwdb. This PAM module/library can not handle
this and ignores /etc/nsswitch.conf.

  Thorsten

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From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
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