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Date:      Fri, 15 May 1998 16:44:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net>
Cc:        Heinrich Langos <heinrich@zaphod.wh9.tu-dresden.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: renaming of usernames and homedirectories
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980515164304.2866E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805132200.SAA07148@castor.loco.net>

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On Wed, 13 May 1998, CyberPeasant wrote:

> All bets are off if the BSD machine is running NIS. I don't know squat
> about NIS. 

FYI -- make the changes on the NIS master then push out the changes.  The
yp makefile will rebuild the databases for you.  If the NIS server &
client are FreeBSD machines it'll serve the password .db files and not the
raw master.passwd.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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