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From: mike@shogun.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Loading large password files into NetInfo
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Date: 10 Jul 89 21:26:55 GMT
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Thanks for your help concerning the question of loading large password
files into NetInfo.  Although I didn't hear from NeXT, I did get two
helpful responses from jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) and
alg@wrath.cs.cornell.edu (Anne Louise Gockel).

Basically, there were two main ways to avoid using niload for a large
password file.

1.  You should run ypserv.  You can even skip loading the yellow pages
database and it will access /etc/passwd but we decided that this would be
too slow, especially for a 4500 entry password file.

2.  You could use niutil to load the file in chunks.  J Greely suggested
this script:

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#!/bin/sh
awk -F: -f - $* <<\EOF | sh
{
    printf("echo now creating user %s\n",$1);
    printf("niutil -create . /users/%s\n",$1);
    printf("niutil -createprop . /users/%s %s '%s'\n",$1,"passwd",$2);
    printf("niutil -createprop . /users/%s %s '%s'\n",$1,"uid",$3);
    printf("niutil -createprop . /users/%s %s '%s'\n",$1,"gid",$4);
    printf("niutil -createprop . /users/%s %s '%s'\n",$1,"realname",$5);
    printf("niutil -createprop . /users/%s %s '%s'\n",$1,"home",$6);
    printf("niutil -createprop . /users/%s %s '%s'\n",$1,"shell",$7);
}
EOF
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Thanks again.

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 Michael Nowak                                          ...mailrus!shogun!mike
 Workstation Consultant                               mike@shogun.cc.umich.edu
 U of M Computing Center User Services              Mike_Nowak@um.cc.umich.edu

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