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From: jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help on NIS client
Date: 11 Jul 1996 21:25:58 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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Message-ID: <4s3rh6$dia@overload.lbl.gov>
References: <4qumb6$pk6@overload.lbl.gov> <4qvo0e$9me@uhura.phoenix.net> <4s0pa6$ngs@overload.lbl.gov> <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960711000001.6764C-100000@clifford.livenet.net>
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In article <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960711000001.6764C-100000@clifford.livenet.net>,
Jim Sloan  <jsloan@LiveNet.Net> wrote:
>On 10 Jul 1996 jin@gracie.lbl.gov wrote:
>[ portion deleted ]
>> 
>> Now, I'd like to get help on add such user +:::::::: to the passwd database
>> from a script, not using interactive vipw.
>
>echo "+::::::::" >> /etc/master.passwd; pwd_mkdb

Thanks for the solution, it works.


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