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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!sn.no!vgs.sn.no!zerium From: zerium@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no (Hans Petter Bieker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS & passwd files Date: 27 Jan 1997 11:00:57 GMT Organization: VGS Lines: 9 Message-ID: <slrn5ep2n9.g3.zerium@pe001.persbraten.vgs.no> References: <slrn5ele42.a8.zerium@pe001.persbraten.vgs.no> <32EAE538.7160@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pe001.persbraten.vgs.no X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.0 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34573 On Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:01:44 -0500, Paul A. Sakievich <sakman@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >> I'm using NFS to share passwd files, but I'm looking for a better system: >> I have symbolic links from /export/etc/passwd to /etc/passwd, master.passwd >> to master.passwd etc. When I adduser, it renames the symbolic links to >> *.bak. >> Is there a better solution?Should I hack adduser? >Why not use NIS? NIS == ?