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From: adams@trim.intel.com (Robert Adams)
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Subject: Re: Sun yp/nis access using SVR4
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Date: 12 Feb 91 20:29:47 GMT
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In article <KPT.91Feb4173004@dirty.doc.ic.ac.uk>, kpt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kevin Twidle) writes:
|> SVR4 NIS does not seem to have the nickname facility that SunOS NIS
|> has and I failed to get my system to pick up the Suns password file
|> etc.
|> 
|> What do I have to do to get this to work?
|> 

AT&T made the decision to not incorporate the NIS database stuff
into the system files (passwd, ...).  I hear that they plan to make
the code or routines to do this available via the ToolChest or some
such for those people who need the feature.

        -- Robert Adams         adams@littlei.intel.com
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