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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: trouble with /etc/passwd
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:23:23 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <1ia6brINNr73@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1993Jan4.161256.10199@europa.asd.contel.com>
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- In article <1993Jan4.161256.10199@europa.asd.contel.com> groome@oxmyx.lab writes:
- >I have found that in our network, on a SPARC (slave), if it's ethernet is
- >DISconected, I can't login as one of the local users, such as sync.
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- When you login with NIS enabled, it also looks in the netid.byname NIS map
- in order to get your groups.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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