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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!news.cs.ucla.edu!not-for-mail From: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: stale passwd problem Date: 26 Mar 1997 01:50:19 GMT Organization: UCLA CS Dept Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5h9vcr$s9t@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> References: <5h7rvg$f07@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> <5h8rj1$o3p@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: taliesin.cs.ucla.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970120] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37900 Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote: : Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Scott Michel : (scottm@cs.ucla.edu) had the courage to say: : : I have a NIS master server, connected to a NIS backup server, : : serving 2.1.6 clients on a seperate subnet, viz: : : NIS -> NIS -> client : : master server backup server : The master server has to push the modified maps to the slave server : when there's an updated. To do this, you have to: This is done already by the NIS master server (running FreeBSD). To quote myself: : : I've made sure that the master.passwd.* and passwd.* maps have : : been transferred to the backup server. In all respects, everything else (automount maps, host names, netgroups) works correctly. -scottm