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- From: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next
- Subject: Re: Updating password files remotely...
- Message-ID: <wf02sa200WBKQ67VYl@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 11:48:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.wf02sa200WBKQ67VYl
- Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Nov10.165408.11547@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next: 10-Nov-92 Updating password files
- rem.. by Robert J. Granvin@umnsta
-
- > Can someone give me pointers (email, please!) on the best way to update
- > user account information without having to go through the user interface
- > that it so plainly seems to want to force on you? I've gone through the
- > FAQ's I can find, which has been enlightening on some things, but not this.
- > (Because of the network design and planned usage of the slab, all user
- > accounts will be on mounted drives - other than root and one or two other
- > accounts, nothing will physically reside on the NeXTstation itself...)
- >
- > All recommendations for this novice-NeXT-site appreciated... Email is even
- > more appreciated...
-
- Get a copy of the /etc/passwd file from the other machines onto the NeXT
- (or have it available from one of the NFS directories). The appropriate
- command to load the passwd file into the NetInfo database is "niload -d
- passwd . < _DEC_passwd_file_". Note that you must be root to do this.
-
- If you want to automate this process, have this command run from crontab.
-
- But you'd be much better off using yp/NIS; updating things like
- /etc/passwd when necessary is what yp/NIS was designed to do.
-
- -Chuck
-
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