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OK, I admit to being a non-NeXT type person... 

We are trying to integrate a NeXTstation into our network of Digital
DECstations.  It's primary purpose is for access to mathematica, so it's
not a full addition to the network, as it were.  yp is not being used.

While it's simple to convince the slab to mount all the zillions of
NFS directories I need, I also need the ability to basically just feed
it an /etc/password with updated users and passwords at any time, and do it
relatively automated.  I also cannot do this at the console by hand for
a multitude of reasons (Ranging from the console is in another city to
it's hard to automate things if it requires human intervention... :-)

Can someone give me pointers (email, please!) on the best way to update
user account information without having to go through the user interface
that it so plainly seems to want to force on you?  I've gone through the
FAQ's I can find, which has been enlightening on some things, but not this.
(Because of the network design and planned usage of the slab, all user
accounts will be on mounted drives - other than root and one or two other
accounts, nothing will physically reside on the NeXTstation itself...)

All recommendations for this novice-NeXT-site appreciated... Email is even
more appreciated...

Thanks,

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Robert J. Granvin                                       School of Statistics
rjg@stat.umn.edu                                     University of Minnesota