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Dear Pros:

I have a simple question about nisplus,
in the nsswitch.conf, I have passwd: files nisplus

for this situation:
if in one machine, there is a user entry inside the /etc/passwd and
passwd.org_dir, but there password is different.

this time the network passwd will not work, the passwd in the /etc/shadow
will work.

now what I try to do , is how to make them as the same. even when user
change their passwd, my nisplus server will also update /etc/passwd /etc/shadow.

by the way, I don't want to change the entry in nsswitch.conf to
passwd nisplus, why I try to do this, in case nisplus mesh up, I still
can get it back from the file.

 thanx alot!

If you're using nis+ you should not have duplicate users in the
local passwd file.

For each user, you have to decide, wether this user is stored in the
NIS+ tables or in the files in /etc. Storing a user in both (NIS+ and
files) often is the reason for inconcistencies.

If you want to have a fallback for the case of loosing your NIS+
database, you can use a crontab entry to regulary dump your NIS+
tables to files with nisaddent -d.

73, Mario
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