> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> >His other machine was a penguin -- are you sure you want to share uid numbers
> >for bin, daemon, postgres, etc... with that?

> That's an easy enough problem to fix.  He could install BSD on it and
> all his problems would be solved.  BTW, you don't want to use linux for
> an NIS server *anywhere* if you can help it.  YP really sucks under
> linux.

> # ln -s /etc/passwd /path/to/nfs/root/etc/passwd
> # ln -s /etc/master.passwd /path/to/nfs/root/etc/master.passwd
> # ln -s /etc/pwd.db /path/to/nfs/root/etc/pwd.db
> # ln -s /etc/spwd.db /path/to/nfs/root/spwd.db
> # ln -s /etc/group /path/to/nfs/root/group
>
> That should fix the problem up well enough.

Hmm, sharing /etc/passwd would really break either system. My Slackware
box is working pretty well (after heavy modifications) so I will leave it
as it is. If YP is absolute no-no, then I guess I will just suffer the
consequences. The sparc is just for fun anyway.