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#! rnews 1266 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!bsdtest.ensta.fr!bouyer From: bouyer@ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Stoopid yp/NetBSD question Date: 26 May 1995 13:32:39 GMT Organization: Techniques Avancees, Paris Lines: 18 Sender: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Message-ID: <3q4l9o$cr@ici-paris.ensta.fr> References: <3q2vik$im3@reuters2.mitre.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsdtest.ensta.fr In article <3q2vik$im3@reuters2.mitre.org>, cookson@linus.mitre.org (Dean Cookson) writes: > I'm running NetBSD1.0 on a sparc and trying to get it to pull password > information from yp. +, +: and +:*:0:0::: in /etc/passwd and/or /etc/ > master.passwd don't seem to do the trick. What extremely obvious thing > am I missing? > You have to use 'vipw' to edit the passwd file. It will create a temp file for editing, and then update passwd, master.passwd, pwd.db and spwd.db with the pwd_mkdb command. The line to add is: +::::::::: -- Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris email: bouyer@ensta.fr --