NetworkManage and ypbind

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Wed May 6 17:49:24 UTC 2009


On Tue, 5 May 2009, Rick Stevens wrote:

> Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote:
>
> Does anyone else find it odd that ypbind (necessary for network-based
> logins via NIS) is dependent on a service that will not start until a
> user is already logged in?  Ditto for anything authenticating off a
> remote LDAP server.  Can you say "Catch-22"?

Well it is odd, but may be it is meant in a new "upstart" way, that if 
service needs network, it will start NM as dependency.

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