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- From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs
- Subject: niload "features"
- Message-ID: <17841@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 01:05:41 GMT
- Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu
- Reply-To: matthews@oberon.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD
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- In NeXTstep 3.0, each user gets an 'info' NetInfo directory added to their
- usual /users/<name> directory. This means you can't just niutil -destroy
- <domain> /users/<name> to get rid of the user because NetInfo can't destroy
- directories with children.
-
- Well, niload -d passwd is supposed to delete any password entries that are
- not in the file you load up. But it can't because of the info directory.
- niload should know how to delete that info directory (what *IS* it used for,
- anyway?). This also adds a step to automatic user deletion (niutil -destroy
- <domain> /users/<user>/info, which may not be all that easy depending on how
- you do the batch deletes).
-
- Also, didn't niload hosts bind to the IP address before? Now it seems to
- bind to the hostname, so if you dump the hosts to a flat file, change their
- name, and reload it, you have two hosts with the same IP address (doesn't
- *hurt*, but it is annoying).
-
- At least niload -d now overwrites any existing data, and tries to delete
- information not in the new file as opposed to blowing away that directory and
- reloading it (as I think it did before, anyone care to verify or disprove
- that?).
- ------
- Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
- ------
- ...difference of opinion is advantageious in religion. The several sects
- perform the office of a common censor morum over each other. Is uniformity
- attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the
- introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned;
- yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.
- - Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia"
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