svn commit: r224674 - head/etc
Garrett Cooper
yanegomi at gmail.com
Mon Aug 8 06:42:36 UTC 2011
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 8/7/2011 6:05 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon at nitro.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6 Aug 2011, at 11:16, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Author: dougb
>>>> Date: Sat Aug 6 09:16:53 2011
>>>> New Revision: 224674
>>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/224674
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>> Rather than edit the nsswitch.conf file based on ${MK_NIS} == "no"
>>>> comment out the NIS _compat options by default, but leave them in
>>>> the file for the convenience of users who want to enable it.
>>>>
>>>> Update the comment in the file accordingly.
>>>
>>> This disables NIS by default which is rather surprising considering there has been no prior (which I have been able to find) discussion of this.
>>>
>>> At the _VERY_ least people need to be warned about this loudly. Unless you can show this really helps non-NIS users this is IMO a bad idea.
>>>
>>> Yes, if you hand merge all /etc files this won't be a problem... but I don't since life's to short for that, so this change just broke login on one of the FreeBSD.org during an upgrade.
>
> mergemaster has been in the tree for almost 12 years now. :) In any
> case, I can't think of a situation where blindly copying new files to
> /etc is a good idea (with all due respect).
>
>> non-POLA changes are bad, and this _definitely_ deserves an UPDATING
>> entry and/or further discussion.
>
> I'm happy to ask for permission to do the UPDATING entry, do you have
> suggestions for the text?
Maybe this?
-Garrett
$ svn diff UPDATING
Index: UPDATING
===================================================================
--- UPDATING (revision 224699)
+++ UPDATING (working copy)
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@
machines to maximize performance. (To disable malloc debugging, run
ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.)
+20110807:
+ Prior versions of nsswitch.conf explicitly enabled NIS lookup of group,
+ passwd, and services information; it is now disabled by default.
+
20110628:
The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 4.5.
You need to update userland tools to be in sync with kernel.
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