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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!news.mindlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NIS group bug Date: 7 Oct 1995 19:03:54 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 41 Message-ID: <456iuq$o2t@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <44utor$a6b@news.uni-paderborn.de> <4504cb$rca@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Lars Hentschke (nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de) had the courage to say: : First, i've tried to mail a possible solution to your EMail from : the header of this article, but jkuku@uni-paderborn.de isnt known : at your University. Heh... check the signature at the end of his post. The e-mail addresses listed there are valid. : FreeBSD-2.0.5-R is a NIS-client and SUNOS4.3.1 is a NIS-Server and : it runs without any problems here ... : My first mistake that i took: : dont use the last line syntax from SUNOS-NIS-client to setup a : FreeBSD-NIS-client! : right syntax should be: : /etc/group-last-line: : +:*:: : /etc/master.passwd-last-line: : +::::::::: This is in fact the right way to do it, but as it happens, there really was a bug. Sometimes, getgrent.c would fail to return all the group membership for a user if that user was in both a local /etc/group group _and_ and NIS group. I committed a fix for this yesterday, and it's been pulled into the 2.1 tree as well. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~