Bug 140009
| Summary: | configuration issue NIS in nsswitch.conf(5) | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Volker Jahns <volker> |
| Component: | conf | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Open --- | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
For bugs matching the following criteria: Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01 Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags. Mail being skipped |
actual behaviour: ----------------- database source entry 'compat' for Database passwd in '/etc/nsswitch.conf' will result in failure of name lookup for user entries: -- user1@pegasus ~ > id user2 id: user2: no such user -- Changing to database source entry 'files nis' will succeed in name lookup -- user1@pegasus ~ > id user2 uid=ppp(user2) gid=nnn(group2) groups=nnn(group2),5(operator),0(wheel),80(www) -- n.b. - user1 is local user, user2 distributed via NIS. - FreeBSD 6.2-stable is distributed with identical /etc/nsswitch.conf and works with NIS out of the box. desired behaviour: ------------------ correct documentation and/or nsdispatch to be compatible with older installations. further information: -------------------- jahns@pegasus ~ > diff /etc/nsswitch.conf nsswitch.conf 1,4d0 < # < # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file < # $FreeBSD: src/etc/nsswitch.conf,v 1.1.8.1 2009/04/15 03:14:26 kensmith Exp $ < # 9c5 < passwd: files nis --- > passwd: compat Fix: Edit nsswitch.conf on FreeBSD 7.2 and change entry of database passwd from -- passwd: compat -- into -- passwd: files nis --