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From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:07:51PM -0600, kitsune wrote:
> 
> Found my problem... a pwd_mkdb is required... but not mentioned in the
> hand book...

The handbook section dealing with setting up NIS clients tells you to use
'vipw' to edit master.passwd, which will make sure that a pwd_mkdb is done.

	Scott

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