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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Simple System Question
Message-ID: <1061@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 90 03:46:12 GMT
References: <72100017@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <72100018@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <72100018@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>	Here was one suggestion:
>
>		edit the /etc/passwd file:
>		# nidump passwd . > /etc/passwd

Which does NOT work in the general case (only for standalone
workstations), and does not export ALL of the information in the
database because there is no way of representing it in
/etc/passwd format.  niload is something you do ONCE to migrate
non-NeXT users to NeXT, but changes should be done with
NetInfoManager (or niutil if you have to do it from a command
line).

					-=EPS=-