Blog Archive

Thursday, 26 August 2004

A note about NIS

passwd: files nis

group: files nis



This instructs the system to first look in /etc/passwd

or /etc/group for an entry and then fallback and query

NIS for the entry. This configuration does not look for

nor enforce +/- behavior.



If you want to use the +/- semantics you will need to

configure passwd and group as follows:





passwd: compat

group: compat



This instructs the system to enforce the +/- semantics.