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- From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: passwd problems-->NetInfo
- Message-ID: <BxMq43.KK4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 00:45:24 GMT
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- dockd@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Dion Dock) writes:
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- >I am having touble getting Netinfo to work. Users on my 'station cannot do
- >a 'passwd -s' or a 'passwd -f' without getting this error messgae:
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- >Cannot change finger information or shell with NetInfo (yet).
-
- >I tried running NetinfoManager, and added a _write_passwd and _write_shell
- >entries to each user with the attributes set to the user name, but that didn't
- >work either.
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- passwd -s and passwd -f simply don't work with netinfo. (at least
- not in 2.1, does it work in 3.0?)
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