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From: emory!km@gatech.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
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Subject: Workstation in 2 YP domains?
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Date: 19 Jan 89 05:19:03 GMT
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We are in the siutation where some of our workstations really need YP data
from two domains. These workstations are located in a lab, and it is
natural to put them in the domain of the lab YP server. There are quite a
number of id's that are special to the lab.

On the other hand, many of the users of the workstations have their id's
administered on a central time sharing system which will in fact serve
their directories. A convention is used for ranges of uids so that there
is no conflict.

Does anyone see a nice way to handle this? Right now we see no way other
than to copy lots of passwd entries from the central system to the lab
server.

Ken Mandelberg      | km@mathcs.emory.edu          PREFERRED
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