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- From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: sendmail and NIS managed aliases problem
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.224850.23646@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 22:48:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.152346.20352@awdprime.austin.ibm.com> <1992Aug31.195040.2306@csi.on.ca> <1992Sep2.132320.28479@selway.umt.edu>
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- mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire) writes:
- >mcr@csi.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes:
- >>curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com writes:
- >>>mcr@csi.on.ca (Michael Richardson) writes:
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- >> Sure there is, don't read the group list for root.
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- If we did this, wouldn't we be nonstandard in the industry?
- Isn't that what people bitch about most often with AIX, (for
- example qdaemon.)
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- So you're advocating we never read root's grouplist? Or just don't
- read it when no NIS server can be found? (which means your login
- would hang for 1 minute and then work, and then what would you do
- if the NIS server came back halfway through the login, etc.....)
-
- I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just asking...
-
- What would YOU do? How would YOU solve these problems?
-
- >> I am pretty sure I have been able to login as root when NIS is dead
- >>on a 3.2 machine, btw.
-
- >Not true, at least from my 3.2 machines. The only way I can have root
- >login is if there's not + in /etc/group.
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- Exactly. Industry standard behaviour I believe.
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- curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt L. Finch) | AIX NFS/NIS Field Quality
- My views are unrelated to those of IBM | Austin, TX
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