Subject: Re: heads up: nsswitch modifications to support defaults
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/19/1999 09:19:08
Luke, please don't get me wrong, I am very glad to see an nsswitch. The
whole defaults thing that I supported was only to avoid One More Pitfall for
upgrading systems. (We have enough of them already. :)
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Luke Mewburn wrote:
: hosts: dns files
: passwd: compat
: passwd_compat: nis
Okay, that looks fine. But shouldn't passwd read `compat files'? (That's
how I read the manual page's description of the sources.)
: people who don't like those defaults (like myself) will have enough
: of a clue to create /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Right; that's fine. :)
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