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From: rbickers@intercenter.net (Ron Bickers)
Subject: Re: Resolver on 3.0
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Kevin Dulzo (kdulzo@enteract.com) wrote:
: 
: 	Another question on NIS, what do I have to do to enable
: login/password lookups through ypbind.  I see absolutely no docs for this,
: nor does the default '+' in the password file work (vipw fails, or if i
: fill out all fields required with plus it STILL doesn't work althought it
: can run mkdb)

See 'man 5 passwd' for all the details.

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Ron