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From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: changing su password in netinfo
Message-ID: <5988@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 89 13:04:18 GMT
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In article <MDIXON.89Aug27185619@thelonius.PARC.xerox.com> mdixon@thelonius.PARC.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) writes:
>the only fix i can think of is to boot single user and smash the netinfo
>database (/etc/netinfo/local.nidb/collection, as far as i can tell) with
>a copy from the original system disk.  is there really no better way to
>do this?

Another way in addition to Daniel Zerkle's suggestions is to move
/usr/etc/nibindd to /usr/etc/nibindd.off and reboot the system.  This will in
effect, start the system without NetInfo.  You can then log in as root, start
nibindd by hand and edit the netinfo stuff.


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