On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 02:46:34AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +0000, Joseph Heenan wrote: > > > I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. > > ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run > > as a normal user. For lack of a better suggestion, perhaps try > > upgrading to the potato nis package? > > glad it works in potato, I try to resist the temptation, as the > price of downloading all is a little high:( anyhow, first I have
wel i couldn't resist:) grabbed the potato version and much to my embarrishment it was just a matter of configuration. fortunately hiding the shadow files is now default, so i just followed potato and put "* : shadow : port" into /etc/ypserv.conf and all is swell -- groetjes, carel

