[Linux-disciples] NIS questions

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2004-05-26T12:44:29-0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > All right: I think I have NIS properly set up on a few
> > clients, because I can run programs like ypcat and get
> > entries out of my passwd file. But this brings up a question
> > for me: how does NIS resolve a conflict between the local
> > passwd file and the NIS passwd file? If a username exists in
> > both files, whose password does the system consult? I'll
> > experiment a bit on this.
> 
> This is configurable: At some point in /etc/passwd, you stick in a
> line with '+'s.  I think earlier entries in /etc/passwd take
> precedence, so if you want the local passwd file, you put the local
> entries before that line; if you want the remote one, you put the
> local entries after that line.

See also /etc/nsswitch.conf (documented in a man page).

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