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From: "Paul A. Sakievich" <sakman@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS & passwd files
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:01:44 -0500
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Hans Petter Bieker wrote:
> 
> I'm using NFS to share passwd files, but I'm looking for a better system:
> I have symbolic links from /export/etc/passwd to /etc/passwd, master.passwd
> to master.passwd etc. When I adduser, it renames the symbolic links to
> *.bak.
> 
> Is there a better solution?Should I hack adduser?

Why not use NIS?

- Paul