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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: NetInfo from tty login
- Message-ID: <Btt5np.18r@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <BtoGJK.284@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Aug29.210035.4369@rtsg.mot.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 17:52:23 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- muegel@rtsg.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel) writes:
-
- >Previously, jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) wrote:
- >>This is undoubtably obvious (I hope) but neither I nor the syadmin of the
- >>NeXT machine know how the NetInfo stuff can be changed from a root login
- >>via telnet. It's no problem when logged into the console with the GUI
- >>editor but is there anyway to put new entries in the mount list etc. from
- >>remote? I checked the FAQ and didn't see anything about this and manuals
- >>seem to only geared from console logins.
-
- >Could you use some hacked up nidump/niload scheme? I.e. use nidump to get
- >the info, edit it, and them pop it back into NetInfo land via niload.
- Sure.
- There isn't anything you can't do with niload, nidump, niutil, and
- nidomain. (well, you might need awk or perl and surely grep to get
- some of the neat views you can with NetInfoMangler, but you CAN do
- it)
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