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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:34:29 +0800 (CST)
From: Wei-Kai Wu <wkwu@mail.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
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Subject: pw can't change NIS user's group?
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>Number:         46855
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       pw can't change NIS user's group?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 07 22:40:01 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jan 07 22:54:20 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jan 07 22:54:20 PST 2003
>Originator:     Wei-Kai Wu
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Kavalan
>Environment:
	FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE, NIS server
>Description:
	I would like using 'pw' to change a NIS user's group, but faild.

	% id james
	uid=11375(james) gid=10(staff) groups=10(staff)
	% ypcat passwd | grep james
	james:##james:11371:10:TEST:/u/staff/james:/bin/tcsh
	% pw usermod 11371 -g others -Y
	pw: user 'james' does not exist (NIS?)

	Does that indicate 'pw' do NOT support changing a NIS user's group?
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: maxim 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 7 22:52:00 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
From man 8 pw: 

"Note that pw only operates on the local user and group files. NIS users 
and groups must be maintained on the NIS server." 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=46855 
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