On Tuesday 14 December 2004 13:47, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:52:29PM +0100, Thierry LACOSTE wrote:
> > Good guess.
> > Ethereal shows me that the cient is requesting the group.byname map.
> > I'm really confused about that. I don't see the point of this request=
:
> > how can a purely local account be in a group exported by the yp serve=
r?
>
> You could have root in one or more groups from the NIS map. And the sys=
tem
> doesn't know that root is in fact in none of these groups without readi=
ng
> this map.
> In other words, to make sure it's really local it needs to read the NIS
> group map.
I thought that an UID found in the local password hides the same UID
on the server ...
=2E.. if I get your point, when I have a local user "a" with UID 500
and an yp-distributed user "b" with UID 500 and when I login
with "a" on the client, I will get the yp distributed groups of "b" ?
=20