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diff --git a/share/man/man8/yp.8 b/share/man/man8/yp.8
index 75e3cc1..f57c8df 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/yp.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/yp.8
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" from: @(#)yp.8 1.0 (deraadt) 4/26/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 5, 1993
+.Dd June 25, 2009
.Dt YP 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -310,9 +310,15 @@ The
.Tn NIS
.Pa Makefile
.Pq Pa /var/yp/Makefile
-will do this automatically if the administrator comments out the
-line which says
-.Dq Li NOPUSH=true
+will do this automatically if the administrator creates
+.Pa /var/yp/Makefile.local
+and empties the
+.Va NOPUSH
+variable:
+.Bd -literal -offset four
+.Li NOPUSH=
+.Ed
+.Pp
.Va ( NOPUSH
is set to true by default because the default configuration is
for a small network with only one
@@ -394,9 +400,11 @@ To help prevent this,
.Fx Ns 's
.Tn NIS
server handles the shadow password maps
-.Pa ( master.passwd.byname
+.Pa ( master.passwd.byname ,
+.Pa master.passwd.byuid ,
+.Pa shadow.byname
and
-.Pa master.passwd.byuid )
+.Pa shadow.byuid )
in a special way: the server will only provide access to these
maps in response to requests that originate on privileged ports.
Since only the super-user is allowed to bind to a privileged port,
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