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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: passwd problems-->NetInfo
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 14:22:44 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- References: <1992Nov14.162155.24446@Trirex.COM>
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- In article <1992Nov14.162155.24446@Trirex.COM> dglattin@trirex.com (Dennis
- Glatting) writes:
- =>In article <BxMq43.KK4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David
- =>Lemson) writes:
- =>> dockd@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Dion Dock) writes:
- =>>
- =>> >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:
- =>>
- =>> >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.
- =>>
- =>> passwd -s and passwd -f simply don't work with netinfo. (at least
- =>> not in 2.1, does it work in 3.0?)
- =>
- =>The other thing you may check is your NetInfo structure. Make sure that
- =>the *users* subdirectory exists in all domains in the path to the user's
- =>NetInfo entry. For example, if you have a three level domain where the
- =>user accounts are stored in the root but there is no users subdirectory in
- =>the mid level then I would expect this problem.
- =>
-
- You have a good point, but the problem is far simplier than a netinfo problem:
- passwd -s and passwd -f were not modified to use netinfo. Therefore they
- can't make changes to the netinfo database...
-
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- =>315 Post Road West / Westport, Connecticut 06880 / (203)221-4600
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