Re: trouble with /etc/passwd

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 20:23

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In article <1993Jan4.161256.10199@europa.asd.contel.com> groome@oxmyx.lab writes:
>I have found that in our network, on a SPARC (slave), if it's ethernet is 
>DISconected, I can't login as one of the local users, such as sync.  

When you login with NIS enabled, it also looks in the netid.byname NIS map
in order to get your groups.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar

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Subject: Re: trouble with /etc/passwd
Date: 4 Jan 1993 20:23:23 GMT
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