Re: passwd problems-->NetInfo

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From: David Lemson
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:45

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dockd@storm.CS.ORST.EDU (Dion Dock) writes:

>I am having touble getting Netinfo to work.  Users on my 'station cannot do
>a 'passwd -s' or a 'passwd -f' without getting this error messgae:

>Cannot change finger information or shell with NetInfo (yet).

>I tried running NetinfoManager, and added a _write_passwd and _write_shell
>entries to each user with the attributes set to the user name, but that didn't
>work either. 

passwd -s and passwd -f simply don't work with netinfo. (at least
not in 2.1, does it work in 3.0?)
-- 
David Lemson                                                (217) 244-1205
University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
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Subject: Re: passwd problems-->NetInfo
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