On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Stephen M. Jones wrote:
> This has resolved my issue without any adverse affects.  I'm not exactly
> clear on what the trade off is on either configuration.  As noted by
> others, there definitely is a bug with the default option which surfaces
> with larger installations running 3.x.  For now, I'm fine with the second
> config option, which seems to work as expected.

I wonder if we shoulad add this into the BUGS section of nsswitch.conf.5 
(unless someone's gonna fix the 'compat' code)...


  - Hubert (using non-compat NIS since ~forever)