Bug 17546

Summary:

[sysinstall] sysinstall does not let you configure NIS

Product:

Base System

Reporter:

murray <murray>

Component:

bin

Assignee:

freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>

Status:

Closed FIXED

Severity:

Affects Only Me

Priority:

Normal

Version:

4.0-RELEASE

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

Description	Flags
file.diff	none

Description murray 2000-03-22 11:50:01 UTC

  This patch adds a NIS configuration menu after you select NIS client
in Startup configuration.  From this menu you can add NIS users and
netgroups to be imported to your system.  Currently there is no way to
add NIS users through sysinstall since the existing user management
functions call 'pw' which won't accept special characters like '+',
"@", or "-".  The new NIS-aware functions edit master.passwd directly
and then call pwd_mkdb.

  user.c is _really_ gross, and this patch does not help.

How-To-Repeat: 
  Try to setup NIS under FreeBSD without editing text files.

Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2000-04-08 00:43:07 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->murray

I have some more work to do before committing this patch.

Comment 2 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2001-08-30 23:48:15 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: murray->eric

Eric is working on sysinstall now.

Comment 3 Eric Melville freebsd_committer

2001-10-01 20:01:54 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: eric->freebsd-qa

assign idle sysinstall bugs to freebsd-qa, as suggested by murray

Comment 4 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer

2002-08-25 03:15:41 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-qa->qa

Use short names for mailing list to make searches    
using the web query form work with the shown responsible. 

This also makes open PRs show up in the summery mail.

Comment 5 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2008-12-14 22:06:17 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This patch is less relevant now with the current state of sysinstall 
and popularity of NIS.  Work should instead go into more promising 
future installers for FreeBSD.