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From: agm@warwick.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you manage multiple /etc/passwd files?
Message-ID: <497@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 05:29:40 EST
Article-I.D.: ubu.497
Posted: Thu Feb 26 05:29:40 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 07:37:25 EST
References: <2253@felix.UUCP> <660@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Reply-To: agm@warwick.UUCP (Andy Minter)
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Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, UK
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In article <660@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
writes:
>We run a distributed filesystem (Sun's and Mt. Xinu's NFS
>implementations at present) and all but one of them are symbolic links
>to the other...

What happens is users on different machines try to change their passwords at
the same time?  Does the password file get locked properly?

Andrew G. Minter