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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet5!shovey From: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: npasswd Date: 12 Sep 1995 21:00:12 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 60 Message-ID: <434scs$3rt@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <42d72u$ktg@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <42f6td$7r7@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <42jpk7$djo@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <42loj9$cv7@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet5.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bill Paul (wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu) wrote: : Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, : Superuser (root@buffnet.net) had the courage to say: : : [deletia] [deletia] : : You cant use password on the master and then do it? Im curious since I : : may use a freebsd for a master server if it wont trip me up. : No, you can't use passwd on the master to do it. Yet. The default NIS : configuration assumes that you will have a seperate master.passwd file : as the source for your NIS passwd maps, which means I'd have to hack : passwd to know to use the alternate file and run /usr/libexec/yppwupdate : when it was finished. Unfortunately, I may not have time to implement Im still not 100% on this. So you're saying one has more than the regular master.passwd on the server? I thought it used the primary's regular passwd and master.passwd - in which case you would think you would update it there, and the rest would see it. Im confused out. : this before 2.1 is frozen. (The Job That Ate My Brain (tm) is heating : up: I have a bunch of fiber-optic cables to run and terminate (I _hate_ : SC connectors!), a couple of HP workstations to hook up and configure, : plus a buttload of accounts to create. I've also been informed that : I'll soon have the chance to add AIX administration to my repetroire. Ugh.) I hear that one! : : Has anyone used freebsd's NIS on a large install (over 500 users)?? : The network that I use to test my NIS hackery has about 300 users : and 50 hosts. I have a couple of FreeBSD clients on this network : that all work fine. I have a port of the FreeBSD ypserv that I : use on a second network of SGI systems with about 40 hosts (mostly : Indys) and about 150 users (this will increase substantially as : the semester progresses). This network has one master and one slave : server, both of which are getting a heavy pounding and holding up : quite well. (Granted this isn't the same as using true FreeBSD The question is due to being gun shy - under SCO if you maintain a shadow file, and you have more than 30 or so users, and a user changes their password, no one can log in anyplace for up to 10 minutes while the boxes sync themselves - any more than 50 users and you end up with chewed and corrupted /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. The worse grinding is on the master. Can you tell I really love SCO? Well I dont! But I dont want to port everything only to find a worse mess... Im really confused on the master.passwd issue - because then how does one make a new account? the same old adduser? or do you have to manually add something to this mystery file.. I feel dumb today...