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From: zerium@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no (Hans Petter Bieker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS & passwd files
Date: 27 Jan 1997 11:00:57 GMT
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:01:44 -0500, Paul A. Sakievich <sakman@worldnet.att.net> 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?

NIS == ?