GDM Greeter

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat May 3 06:06:47 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:29 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 12:22:47AM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 00:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > 
> > > How are you distinguishing local users from any other kind?
> > 
> > Local users are the ones you get by reading /etc/passwd.
> 
> As somebody recently explained on this list, and I have seen done in
> practice as well, some NIS files are periodically synchronized to
> local machines; /etc/passwd in particular.  This is done to have at
> least some functionality if NIS went away for a moment.
> 
> People using such tactics, and with a bigger /etc/passwd, will be
> for a surprise.

I am doing the converse: I keep all network-wide users (== all "ordinary
users") in NIS and only have a very small set of local users :)

Ralf





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