Bug 43761

Summary:	Local accounts don't get priority over NIS accounts.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ian Mortimer <i.mortimer>
Component:	ypbind	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Ian Mortimer 2001-06-07 02:33:51 UTC

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Description of problem:
If you have a local account defined in /etc/passwd it is ignored in favour
of the NIS account.  This is a change from previous behaviour and
contradicts /etc/nsswitch.conf which has:

   passwd:    files nis

You can get it to work as before by changing /etc/nsswitch.conf to:

   passwd:    files compat

and adding +::0:0::: to the end of /etc/passwd.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. stop ypbind
2. create a local account for a user in the NIS passwd database
3. start ypbind
4. login as that user or try to change the password. 
	

Actual Results:  You will be logged in with the password and account
details of the NIS user rather than the locally defined user .  If you try
to change the password it will want to change it on the NIS server rather
than locally.

Expected Results:  The local account should take priority over NIS as
specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf (or at least that was the previous
behaviour).  
This change is not documented anywhere as far as I can tell.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ian Mortimer 2001-06-07 22:01:38 UTC

I did some quick testing yesterday after a report from a remote site but the
information I had was wrong and I came to wrong conclusion.  This is not a
problem with ypbind but with passwd.  Please ignore this bug report.  I'll
register as a bug with passwd.