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Article #848Re: NetInfo from tty login
From: Eric P. Scott
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 08:54
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 08:54
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In article <BtoGJK.284@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) writes: >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. Check out the man pages for nidump, niload, and niutil. The first two are conveniences for UNIX weenies. niutil provides "low level" access and can do most things one might use NetInfoManager for. -=EPS=- -- Anyone care to write a curses-based NetInfoMangler replacement?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!news From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) Subject: Re: NetInfo from tty login Message-ID: <1992Sep1.085406.19746@csus.edu> Sender: news@csus.edu Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu Organization: San Francisco State University References: <BtoGJK.284@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:54:06 GMT Lines: 17