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From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
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Subject: Re: Separate password files on diskless boxes?
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:42:57AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> Is there any way to make passwd(1) talk to a different password file?
> I really don't want to use read/write mounts on my NFS server.  Or,
> has anyone come up with a clever way to do this?  

man -k nis


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