(No) Summary : Questions with DU 3.2C

From: Magali BERNARD <Magali.Bernard_at_criter.univ-st-etienne.fr>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 96 10:07:37 +0100

2 or 3 weeks ago I posted some questions - sorry I didn't got
real answers :

> We have installed DU3.2C in September.
> I would like to have comments about the next questions:
>
> 1 - We are using NIS. Although there is 'yppasswd' in place
> of 'passwd', which command in place of 'chfn' or 'chsh' ?
> I did not find any 'ypchfn' or 'ypchsh' working. I think in
> some other Unix, there is a unique command handling the twice
> (YP and not YP) - why not in DUnix ?
>
No orientation to such 'ypchsh' or 'ypchfn'
I thought in NIS environment anyone should have these...

> 2 - Dec 'adduser' does add the new user in /etc/group in its
> own group - Why ? Is it essential ? Reading /etc/group,
> with large groups of users, is not an easy task.
>
Daniel Clar told me some softwares are working with this new
mode of /etc/group. But if your master NIS is *not* DUnix, ie
users do not figure in /etc/group, what happens ?
 
> 3 - We have some tasks to do in single user mode.
> Why can't we *stay* in single user mode as long as we want ?
> After a while, the system brings up automatically in multi...
> is there any parameter for this ?
>
It should be a local configuration - I didn't find which one.
We solve the problem with : set boot_osflags ""



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Received on Mon Jan 22 1996 - 11:01:52 NZDT

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