Re: passwd problems-->NetInfo

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From: felix.lugo
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:45

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In article <1e8arkINNk09@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
| In article <1992Nov14.162155.24446@Trirex.COM> dglattin@trirex.com (Dennis  
| Glatting) writes:
| 
| 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... 
| 
| --
| Paul S. Sears                *  sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK)
| The University of Houston    *  suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT
| Engineering Computing Center *  comments, complaints, questions)
| "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime."

	But passwd(1) was changed to update passwords in Netinfo.  How much
extra effort do you think would be required to update the other pieces?!!
Programming Netinfo is trivial, NeXT (or SJ) probably decided it wasn't a
worthwile change to pursue since the UserManager could do this, as long as
the system administrator made the change!  I guess they were trying to make
UNIX more "unfriendly"!!!  8^)

--Felix

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From: coco@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (felix.lugo)
Subject: Re: passwd problems-->NetInfo
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:45:59 GMT
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