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From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
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To: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
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	Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@bricsnet.com>,
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Subject: Re: adduser & NIS
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Max Khon wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Eric Ogren wrote:
> 
> >  What do you mean by an adduser that's compatible with NIS? Just run
> > adduser on your NIS master, merge the change into the master.passwd file
> > you have in /var/yp, and remake the maps...
> 
> I wish this could be done automatically
> 
> /fjoe
> 

  This whole thread is silly.  There are some many different ways an NIS
environment can be setup.  The master server can serve multiple domains
from multiple locations on the disk, etc. etc.

  The utility "adduser" is written in perl.  You can adapt it to do
whatever is needed.


Tom
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