Re: NIS and groups

1999-12-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter Ross wrote: > On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > How do I set things up so that either it will recognize group > > memberships on the NIS server, or else allow me to add NIS users to > > local groups? Do I need to eliminate local groups like floppy, mai

Re: NIS and groups

1999-12-03 Thread Peter Ross
On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > To get Netscape movemail working on my NIS server, I did: > > adduser hazelsct mail > > so NS could write a lock file to /var/spool/mail. However, when I try > to do this on the NIS clients, I get > > # adduser hazels

Re: NIS and groups

1999-10-07 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 10:46:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > > I ever wondered why I didn't success in adding users to group floppy > on our network, until I saw in the Makefile that for security reasons > GIDs less than 100 are not included in the NIS distribution. > > How ca