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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: /var/yp/master.passwd
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A question of understanding: Is it the policy that all NIS users
being maintained there rather than in /etc/master.passwd?

I was used (formerly on Sun and Ultrix) that the /etc/passwd of the
NIS master was being used to maintain NIS/yp users.

Now it seems to me that /var/yp is the central base or am I in error?

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de