On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > 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,
You still might want to have these weird entries in /etc/passwd for supporting netgroups, for example. The [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], -user, +user entries in /etc/passwd ar IMHO much more flexible than to have only the choice between all or nothing. And you can have this (I assume) with libc6, too, just use passwd: compat group: compat in /etc/nsswitch.conf. At least this does work with the NYS-enable libc. Greetings, Swen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
