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- From: coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo)
- Subject: Re: passwd problems-->NetInfo
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:45:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.174559.23613@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov14.162155.24446@Trirex.COM> <1e8arkINNk09@menudo.uh.edu>
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- In article <1e8arkINNk09@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
- | In article <1992Nov14.162155.24446@Trirex.COM> dglattin@trirex.com (Dennis
- | Glatting) writes:
- |
- | 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...
- |
- | --
- | Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
- | The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
- | Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions)
- | "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."
-
- But passwd(1) was changed to update passwords in Netinfo. How much
- extra effort do you think would be required to update the other pieces?!!
- Programming Netinfo is trivial, NeXT (or SJ) probably decided it wasn't a
- worthwile change to pursue since the UserManager could do this, as long as
- the system administrator made the change! I guess they were trying to make
- UNIX more "unfriendly"!!! 8^)
-
- --Felix
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