On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:44:13PM -0500, John LeMay wrote:
> 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!
Read the manual-page nsswitch (Was renamed by somebody from nsswitch.conf.5
to nsswitch.5, but should be revert in the next man-pages release, I hope).
Or read the info files for glibc.
Thorsten
>
> -------- 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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