Hi Managers,
My original post and summary follow:
> Page 30 (paragraph 3) of the "Managing NFS and NIS" book by O'Reilly states:
>
> "Conversely, local files that are appended to by NIS maps are always
> consulted first, even if NIS is running."
>
> The local files they are talking about are /etc/passwd, /etc/group etc. I'm a
> little confused by the "appending" (with a +) part of it. Isn't
> /etc/nsswitch.conf what decides the naming service that is consulted (i.e.
> local files, NIS+, NIS or DNS)? Then how does the above statement fit in?
First from the horse's mouth, so to speak!
| From: Hal.Stern@East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - Distinguished Systems Engineer)
|
| the o'reilly book is specific to sunos 4.1.x. in solaris, the name
| service switch determiens the order of lookups, unless you use
| the "ypcompat" service, in which case you get files-then-NIS
| just like in 4.1.x
|
| --hal (author of the o'reilly book!)
Maybe he'd consider on working on updating the (very well written) book! ;)
So,
- "+" syntax is pre-Solaris 2.x. On Solaris 2.x it went away and was replaced
by /etc/nsswitch.conf. You can however use the + on Solaris 2.x if you put
compat next to passwd and group in the nsswitch.conf (in the format "files
compat" - where "compat" means behaviour compatible with SunOS 4), although
it might be somewhat flakey.
- Previously, you had to use the defaults for which maps are appended and
which are replaced. With the nsswitch.conf, you can make that decision
administratively now and in which order you prefer.
- A few people mistakenly thought that "The /etc/nsswitch.conf file is a part
of _only_ NIS+, not NIS.". This is not true. It's an OS (Solaris feature).
Thanks a lot to:
From: Mariel Feder <unix.support@central.meralco.com.ph>
From: Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services <Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.rmkhome.com>
From: Leo Crombach <lcrombach@tropel.com>
From: prh@ece.iit.edu (Paul R. Hybert)
From: terryb@cyrix.com (Terry Bohaning)
From: Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>
From: Arthur Darren Dunham <add@is.rice.edu>
From: Robert Hill <eclrh@sun.leeds.ac.uk>
From: Tom E Smith <tesmit1@monsanto.com>
From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>
From: Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>
From: "K.Ravi" <RAVKRISH.IN.oracle.com.ofcmail@in.oracle.com>
From: Culley Roy <tgdcuro1@gd2.swissptt.ch>
From: negativl (Raymond Wong)
Rasana
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