On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 02:50:43AM +0200, Philip Paeps wrote: > Just checking: are the new implementations (supposed to be) completely > compatible with the old ones, or should I be expecting 'anomalies'? They are supposed to be, except that I don't support old buggy behaviour. > It appears as though this is not completely backward-compatible with the > previous state of affairs. Having no nsswitch.conf and '+:::::::::' in > passwd(5) doesn't allow one to log in, and causes uids not to be turned into > names and vice versa. > > Perhaps a default nsswitch.conf should be provided to ensure that > people don't end up not being able to log into their machines :-) Oops. A default _is_ provided (compiled-in), but I set it incorrectly. The default was `files'. I've restored it to `compat', as it was previously. Thanks for the catch! Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar_at_celabo.org> http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine_at_verio.net . nectar_at_FreeBSD.org . nectar_at_kth.seReceived on Thu Apr 17 2003 - 16:03:09 UTC
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