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From: jesse@hppool.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Roland Jesse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Longer Usernames
Date: 26 Feb 1996 11:05:05 GMT
Organization: Otto von Guerricke Universitaet Magdeburg
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In-reply-to: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu's message of 25 Feb 1996 20:54:47 GMT

In article <4gqiao$63v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes:

> : Oh my god, not that!  :-)  Does anyone really use NIS?
> 
> They better after all the work I've been putting into it. :)

So, can you tell me what it means when ypbind complains that my NIS server
(a Sun machine) is not in my 'mode access list' ? What exactly is this list ?

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