Re: NIS users + local groups

Dzmitry Zhemchuhou said:
>   I ran into a problem with 'usermod' utility. For
> some reason it checks that the user record must be in
> /etc/passwd even when I change the list of secondary
> groups for the user.

I noticed that too (I'm a sysadmin, not a shadow programmer).  I'm using
Samba's Winbind, not NIS, but it's functionally the same to the server.

I used gpasswd -a user group to get around this limitation and it works
like a champ.

/dev/idal