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- From: CCGREG@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Greg Johnson)
- Subject: Re: niload "features"
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 17:26:22 CST
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- In article <17841@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
- >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?).
-
- Right. I can appreciate the safety feature, but for the next increment of
- niload, NeXT, would you add a "-f" option to force deletion even if there are
- kids? Until then, I'm inclined to delete all the "info" subdirectories with
- niutil. It'll make the database smaller. They'd be easy to recreate.
-
- Does anyone know if "info" is actually used by anything? The 3.0 Netinfo
- Release Notes describes it as a miscellaneous repository; the _password entry
- preloaded there when an ID is created just allows the user to update this
- portion of their NetInfo data. It might be used for .plan info, or maybe you
- could put your resume in it.
-