--- "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 12:18:47PM -0700, Shizuka Kudo wrote: > > Hi Jacques, > > > > Thanks for your quick fix. I just tried and it works now. The > > only question I have is that the same error occurs if I deleted > > /etc/nsswitch.conf. Is it the intended behaviour? > > > > %ls -al /etc/nsswitch.conf > > ls: /etc/nsswitch.conf: No such file or directory > > %passwd > > passwd: can't change little green men's passwords (0x3df) > > Depends. Are you using `compat' mode? > > When there is no /etc/nsswitch.conf, then the defaults are as > listed in nsswitch.conf(5), in particular: > > passwd: compat > passwd_compat: nis > > But, I would have expected that you would have either gotten > `passwd: who are you?', or it would have succeeded (if you have > a `+' entry in passwd(5)). > > What is your configuration? i.e. do you have a `+' entry, or not? > do you have a template entry? do you have the user in both passwd(5) > and NIS, or only one or the other? > Jacques, I only have passwd(5) setup. In fact, it is a new installworld with only one user added and root password changed. So there's no '+' entry in /etc/passwd nor NIS. I renamed /etc/nsswitch.conf and then found the same issue. Regards, __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.comReceived on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 11:34:07 UTC
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