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From: steve@tweedledee (Steve Trainoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Mixing Netinfo local and global accounts
Keywords: netinfo accounts
Message-ID: <10885@hub.ucsb.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 91 01:18:06 GMT
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Has anyone else noticed the following problem?  All of the users in our Netinfo  
domain have global accounts.  The other day someone tried to make an account  
that was only valid on one machine.  When he created the local account the  
UserManager made no attempt to check to see if the UID it assigned this new  
user was already used higher up in the netinfo hierarchy.  It just started  
counting at 21.  Fortunately that was my UID and the next time I logged in I  
noticed that all of my files were suddenly owned by someone else.  The solution  
was trivial but this might have created havoc.  What gives?

Another annoying thing is that if I want to create several global accounts  
UserManager asks me for the local and the server password after I try to save  
EACH account.  Why doesn't it ask only once?

PS.  Kudos to Jayson Adams for a really nice news reader "NewsGrazer"
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