[Sunhelp] Question about NIS

[William Ng]

Thank you
But I don't get it. I thought I need to indicate + entry on /etc/passwd
to make the NIS maps work

William



Stephen Holmes wrote:
> 
> Default behaviour now is to use nsswitch.conf to indicate which services to
> consult and in which order.
> 
> So you'll generally be getting root et al from the local /etc/passwd and others
> from the NIS maps.
> 
> Steve Holmes
> 
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