adduser whith nis

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Taylor, ForrestX wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:50, benjlijel CHAKIB wrote:
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>>hello (again)
>>i have pdc nis .how i can add a new user whithout
>>execute the Makefile in /var/yp
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>Edit whatever PASSWD points to in the Makefile and then run make.  Is
>there some reason that you do not want to run make?
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>Forrest
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probably because he mentioned "PDC". This way , samba runs adduser only 
when adding a user remotely using the GUI tools available for windows. 
Then he ends in a inconsistent state , where the user exists , but the 
rest of the world doesnt know it untill he runs make by himself...
One solution is making a wrapper script that calls adduser and make. 
Then configure samba to use it instead of using adduser directly... It's 
a good idea to do this to the other tools also , so you dont need to run 
make everytime you change some user configurations.

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Pedro Macedo