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- From: ianm@icsbelf.uucp (Ian Moran)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: sendmail and NIS managed aliases problem
- Message-ID: <Btn1A7.t0o@icsbelf.uucp>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 10:32:30 GMT
- References: <Aug24.163707.29089@cdsac.uucp> <BtJG8z.xys@icsbelf.uucp> <Aug25.214914.26624@cdsac.uucp>
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- In article <Aug25.214914.26624@cdsac.uucp> scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
- >
- >Regarding tokens, It seems the O'Reilly & Associates, Inc book
- >"Managing NFS and NIS" (April, 1992) disagrees with AIX regarding
- >tokens. For example:
- >
- >
- >Token for AIX from O'Reilly & Assoc
- >
- >passwd +::0:0:: +:*:0:0:::
- >group +: +:*:*
- >aliases <none> +
- >
- >
- >So, which format is the "standard" NIS format? Is it relatively
- >vendorindependent, is Hal Stern (author of Managing NFS and NIS)
- >wrong and/or confused, or has AIX broken from the "standard"??
-
- All NIS clients on our network do not require a token in the alias
- file, machines include Dec Ultrix, DG AViiON, RS6000, HP, Siemens.
- I can only assume that the book is wrong. IBM haven't broken the
- standard they simply ignore it!
-
- > L. Scott Emmons
- > CableData Research Center
- > csusac.csus.edu!cdsac!scotte
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