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In article <1992Nov14.162155.24446@Trirex.COM> dglattin@trirex.com (Dennis  
Glatting) writes:
=>In article <BxMq43.KK4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David  
=>Lemson) writes:
=>> 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?)
=>
=>The other thing you may check is your NetInfo structure.  Make sure that  
=>the *users* subdirectory exists in all domains in the path to the user's  
=>NetInfo entry.  For example, if you have a three level domain where the  
=>user accounts are stored in the root but there is no users subdirectory in  
=>the mid level then I would expect this problem.
=>

You have a good point, but the problem is far simplier than a netinfo problem:  
passwd -s and passwd -f were not modified to use netinfo.  Therefore they  
can't make changes to the netinfo database... 

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