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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 1997 12:27:49 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        pgilley@metronet.com (Phil Gilley)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape and NIS
Message-ID:  <199701160157.MAA09130@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970115192426.16426A-100000@fohnix.metronet.com> from Phil Gilley at "Jan 15, 97 07:26:29 pm"

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Phil Gilley stands accused of saying:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> >I think that the only "other" solution to your problem would be to use
> >a different POP mailreader (XFmail, exmh, etc.).  I appreciate that this
> >is not necessarily a practical answer in your case.
>  
> Unfortunately I discovered today that users can't even use the Web
> browser unless they are in the local password database.  So now I
> not only need a new mail reader, but a new browser too.

That's pretty pathetic, really.  There's a couple of options here; you
can switch to the Linux binary, and see if that groks NIS, or
you can use rdist and a cron job to distribute your password file from
the NIS server.  (uglee)

> Phil Gilley

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