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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Using /etc/passwd and /etc/group while still using NetInfo
Summary: When not to destroy the /users directory
Message-ID: <297@wet.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 21:01:49 GMT
References: <1140@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <1140@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> mike@shogun.us.cc.umich.edu () writes:
>	niutil -destroy . /users

A different situation: we \wanted/ to use netinfo

We created a root domain to serve a NeXT cluster, copied all the
users and groups from . to /, and did this.  No one could log in.
It turns out that you must have a /users in . to be able to use
the one in ..--it's o.k. it it's empty, but it has to be there.
And yes, we did have a valid /etc/passwd at the time.

					-=EPS=- / SFSU