[SunHELP] [Solaris-Users] Re: Password Policies

[Hulock, Mary Ann (SRIC)]

I am not running NIS and I make changes to the hosts file often - and NO
you do not need to reboot the server.

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]
On Behalf Of Adrian Florea
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [SunHELP] [Solaris-Users] Re: Password Policies

that means you have only

hosts: files

in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?

btw - which version of Solaris ?



adrian.

Grindell, Joan M. wrote:

>Thanks for your reply.  What if we are not running NIS?
>
>Joan
>
>-----Original Message-----
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On
>Behalf Of Adrian Florea
>Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:23 AM
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>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] [Solaris-Users] Re: Password Policies
>
>no.
>
>if you changed the hostname of the machine itself - you need to perform

>additional tasks however.
>eventually you'll need to restart 'nscd' / depends on your
>/etc/nsswitch.conf
>
>adrian.
>
>Grindell, Joan M. wrote:
>
>
>
>>Can anyone answer this question?
>>
>>If a change is made to /etc/hosts does the system need to be rebooted
for
>>
>>
>it
>
>
>>to take effect?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Joan
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