Hi @ all, just want to here some of your opinions. Today I found an entry ein etc/passwd looking like this. <snip> +:::::: <snap> does someone know what this means? Google doesn't enlight me :\ Thanks Daniel -- "Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." --Thomas Jefferson
yellow pages, yp, nis are the words to search for... http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/settingup_client.html On Sonntag, 2. März 2003 21:02, Daniel Lord wrote:
just want to here some of your opinions. Today I found an entry ein etc/passwd looking like this.
<snip> +:::::: <snap>
does someone know what this means? Google doesn't enlight me :\
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Hi Daniel, the strange "+::::::" passwd entry is the "sign" for looking up nis maps if the local passwd file fails at login. it means the passwd file is continued with the nis-map "passwd" (ypcat passwd). Greetings, Sascha
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