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David Lemson writes
> muegel@rtsg.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel) writes:
> 
> >Previously, jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) wrote:
> >>This is undoubtably obvious (I hope) but neither I nor the syadmin of the
> >>NeXT machine know how the NetInfo stuff can be changed from a root login
> >>via telnet. It's no problem when logged into the console with the GUI
> >>editor but is there anyway to put new entries in the mount list etc. from
> >>remote?  I checked the FAQ and didn't see anything about this and manuals
> >>seem to only geared from console logins.
> 
> >Could you use some hacked up nidump/niload scheme? I.e. use nidump to get
> >the info, edit it, and them pop it back into NetInfo land via niload.
> Sure.
> There isn't anything you can't do with niload, nidump, niutil, and
> nidomain.  (well, you might need awk or perl and surely grep to get
> some of the neat views you can with NetInfoMangler, but you CAN do
> it)

Be VERY careful with niload for hosts -- you'll lose the "serves" property

I've also been able to niutil to modify netinfo directories, including
hosts, without a whole lot of trouble.  It's a little cumbersome, but it
works.

You can even do it from a non-root login, if you know the root password.
Here's a sample where I changed the "rw" option on a mount to a "ro".


quiensabe[125]% niutil -list . /mounts                                        ~
238      bittersprings:/dan 
239      phoenix:/clients 
342      tucson:/Projects 
quiensabe[126]% niutil -read . 238                                            ~
name: bittersprings:/dan 
opts: bg intr net rw soft timeo=20 rsize=1024 wsize=1024 
dir: /Net 
quiensabe[127]% niutil -createprop . 238 opts bg intr net ro soft timeo=20 rsiz
e=1024 wsize=1024
cannot create: Permission denied
quiensabe[128]% niutil -p -createprop . 238 opts bg intr net ro soft timeo=20 r
size=1024 wsize=1024
Password: 
quiensabe[129]% niutil -read . 238                                            ~
name: bittersprings:/dan 
opts: bg intr net ro soft timeo=20 rsize=1024 wsize=1024 
dir: /Net 

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