At 09:56 AM 3/5/97 +0100, Swen Thuemmler wrote: >You must reverse the lines. The pw routines will stop when a name is >found, so -karl is useless when there is a + preceding it.
Perhaps I should've pointed this out - that was one of the first things I tried. So now I have: -karl +::::::/bin/bash in my passwd file and I can still finger myself no problems. On a related matter - even though I followed the directions exactly in the /usr/doc/nis directory to install nis, it give me errors when running make in /var/yp - eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:p2:/var/yp] make NIS Map update started on Wed Mar 5 18:00:02 WST 1997 make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/tower.net.au' make[1]: `ypservers' is up to date. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/tower.net.au' make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/tower.net.au' Updating passwd.byname... Could not read ypservers: 3 Can't bind to server which serves this domain Pushed passwd.byname map. Updating passwd.byuid... Could not read ypservers: 3 Can't bind to server which serves this domain Pushed passwd.byuid map. Updating netid.byname... Could not read ypservers: 3 Can't bind to server which serves this domain Pushed netid.byname map. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/tower.net.au' NIS Map update completed. This however does work fine and it does get to the slave. -- ___________________________________________________________________ Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au ___________________________________________________________________
