by As I mentioned before I got all of the bugs out of NIS and now
am setting up some servers for different things. one program I am
having problems with wu-ftp. it works if the user has a REAL
/etc/passwd entry on the system.
What I was wondering if this would work, if during a cron job
the following was done
ypcat passwd >/etc/passwd
ypcat groups >/etc/groups
Only thing I am worried about is HOW often should this monster
run? once a day? every hour? I am talking about a system where
passwords and group info is Rarely changed. But how do I deal with it
on a Non Linux aware program such as wu-ftpd?
Is there a intelligent way to ONLY replace the /etc/passwd
file IF the server makes a change?
While we are on this. How can I add additional info to be
passed to a NIS client? I would like to add /etc/shells to my nis
client info. If I modified the /var/yp/Makefile with the additional
data would it cause problems? if one did this on a client /etc/shells
file would a + in the first column work? heres an example
#first the regulars
/bin/bash
# now for the NIS provided info
+
Or should I use ypcat shells.byname >/etc/shells in addition
to my passwd script above?
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B'ichela