NIS/NIS+

John LeMay (jlemay@njmc.com)
Sat, 30 Jan 1999 22:44:13 -0500


Could someone pls provide a link or description of what should/could be
done with the nsswitch.conf file. I'm a bit confused! Maybe taking this
off the list and replying to my address - jlemay@njmc.com - is the best
way. Thanks!

-------- Original Message --------
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com>
Subject: Re: SLOW SLOW SLOW tar with 2.2.0
To: dag@digibel.be

no ! the right thing to do is to remove 'nis', 'nisplus' and
'nis+' from your /etc/nsswitch.conf if you don't have a nis-server
around.
this was discussed before !

I agree. I think it's ludicrious to recommend that someone to add
fake and useless usernames to groups/passwd or even worse to upgrade
to a beta version of glibc to fix this problem. I especially don't
expect it from the glibc maintainer himself.

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