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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!newsadm 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 Organization: CSC Lines: 12 Message-ID: <32EAE538.7160@worldnet.att.net> References: <slrn5ele42.a8.zerium@pe001.persbraten.vgs.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.146.221.70 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E (Win95; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34511 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