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Re: niload "features"

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From: Greg Johnson
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:26
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In article <17841@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:
>Well, niload -d passwd is supposed to delete any password entries that are
>not in the file you load up.  But it can't because of the info directory.
>niload should know how to delete that info directory (what *IS* it used for,
>anyway?).
 
Right.  I can appreciate the safety feature, but for the next increment of
niload, NeXT, would you add a "-f" option to force deletion even if there are
kids?  Until then, I'm inclined to delete all the "info" subdirectories with
niutil.  It'll make the database smaller.  They'd be easy to recreate.
 
Does anyone know if "info" is actually used by anything?  The 3.0 Netinfo
Release Notes describes it as a miscellaneous repository;  the _password entry
preloaded there when an ID is created just allows the user to update this
portion of their NetInfo data.  It might be used for .plan info, or maybe you
could put your resume in it.
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