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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: fingerd fixed (was Re: pmake on NeXT)
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.131019.2019@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 14 Mar 91 13:10:19 GMT
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In article <12242@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
>Ack.  The problem was that I had the users listed twice -- once in
>NetInfo, and once in /etc/passwd.  Removing the /etc/passwd file
>"fixed" the problem.
>
The NeXT doesn't use /etc/passwd?  What other standard files aren't?  If
they aren't needed, why do they leave them in?
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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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