On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> > The system uses NIS for the password and group files.
> You should use a nis-lookup somewhere in your acl, that evaluates to true
> all the time and defers otherwise, or use a router that does a nis-lookup,
> so it defers on failure. The getpwnam interface has no return-code for
> temporary errors.
>
> Phil recently added a FAQ entry about this.
Something else you can do to alleviate NIS problems is to set
finduser_retries to something, say 4 or 5.
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