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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: NetInfo from tty login
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.085406.19746@csus.edu>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
- Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <BtoGJK.284@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:54:06 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <BtoGJK.284@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) writes:
- >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.
-
- Check out the man pages for nidump, niload, and niutil. The
- first two are conveniences for UNIX weenies. niutil provides
- "low level" access and can do most things one might use
- NetInfoManager for.
-
- -=EPS=-
- --
- Anyone care to write a curses-based NetInfoMangler replacement?
-