Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: > > I mentioned this problem in the list a while ago but I got no answers. > Adduser doesn't work when you are a NIS client and I just filed a bug on > this. > > What you can do is temporally remove the +::: and +::::: entries from > /etc/group and /etc/passwd, run adduser and then replace the NIS entries > in those files. > > Pedro I. Sanchez > ---------------- > > > Hi all ! > > > > Can somebody tell me if there is a bug in adduser? I tried > >to use it yesterday to add some new users to my system when, to my > >surprise, iut failed. As a matter of fact, adduser had problems with > > the > >NIS entries of the files: /etc/passwd and /etc/group; it didn't remove > >those entries to add the new users, so there was trouble. Therefore, I > >had to remove then by hand and to add then latter (by hand too). Is >this > >ok?
It's unlikely this will be fixed. I've noticed that something has to be a pretty serious bug to be put in 1.3 now. I think (hope) that libc6 uses the more modern /etc/nsswitch.conf rather than putting weird entries into /etc/passwd, group, etc. to dictate the use of NIS, DNS, etc. Looking forward to Hamm and libc6, -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
