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Article #6972trouble with /etc/passwd
From: J. Andrew Groome
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:12
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:12
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My limited understanding of how the NIS passwd file works led me to believe that the local passwd file would be read sequentially looking for the desired key until a + entry was found, at this point it would look to the NIS maps. I have found that in our network, on a SPARC (slave), if it's ethernet is DISconected, I can't login as one of the local users, such as sync. Here is an example of what my /etc/passwd looks like: root:XXrTa8L5oqk:0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh sys:*:2:2::/:/bin/csh bin:*:3:3::/bin: sync::1:1::/:/bin/sync +::0:0::: Can anybody tell me why this hangs when I try to login as as one of the users listed before the line starting with '+' ? Is this slave trying to do some type of NIS lookup? Much thanks. --- J. Andrew Groome (GTE Federal Systems): Andy.Groome@oasis.gtefsd.com Voice: (703) 818-5478 Fax: (703) 818-4541
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!oxmyx!groome From: groome@oxmyx.lab (J. Andrew Groome) Subject: trouble with /etc/passwd Message-ID: <1993Jan4.161256.10199@europa.asd.contel.com> Sender: news@europa.asd.contel.com (News) Nntp-Posting-Host: oxmyx.lab.oasis.contel.com Reply-To: groome@oxmyx.lab Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:12:56 GMT Lines: 27