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In article <18152@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews)  
writes:
#Does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting authentication errors  
when
#trying to edit data served by another machine, when that domain's root
#password is empty (it isn't always empty, just testing)?
#

If there is not a "root" account on a level in the Netinfo structure, then  
that level can only be modified on the machine that serves it.  To solve  
this problem, add a root user to the particular level you want to be able  
to change from clients (i.e, in your case, add a "root" user to the /  
domain).  The root users in these domains can have different passwords if  
you like and can make for added security since you will have to supply a  
password to make any changes to that particular domain.  This would me  
that if someone got root on your server, they would only be able to screw  
with the local netinfo domain on that server (unless all your root  
passwords in Netinfo are the same!)...

#Here's the exact situation.  Voyager is our two level NetInfo server, so  
it
#serves / and /voyager.  (It's a NeXTcube, this is all NeXTstep 3.0.)
#Pioneer, a color station, serves /pioneer.
#
#Pioneer can not authenticate itself to / or /voyager.  It just can't.  At
#first I thought it was some sort of trusted_networks glitch, but we don't  
use
#trusted_networks.  Then I thought it might've been a machine/IP
#address/ethernet address mismatch, but all the relevant data seemed fine.

I would suggest that you use trusted_networks.  Otherwise anyone can snarf  
any of your netinfo data by using tags.
 
#------
#Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
#------
#One of the saddest lessons of history is this:  If we've been bamboozled
#long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.  We're no
#longer interested in finding out the truth.  The bamboozle has captured
#us.  it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that
#we've been so credulous.  (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the
#new bamboozles rise.)
#-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1,  
1987

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