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Date: Sun 22-Sep-1989 23:52:24 From: Unknown Subject: NeXT Bugs This is the posting of a bug report I sent to NeXT a 52 days ago. The tone is probably a bit testy, since it is the result of hours of frustration in working with the machine, sorry. We've received nothing more than an acknowledgement of receipt. I'm indeed working with the machine with only the online documentation, and through a rlogin on the ethernet. I don't yet know how to get reasonable printouts of .wn (WriteNow) documents. Sometimes I "strings" them. My understanding is that all the printed documents are availiable on-line (Are they?). Is this stuff fixed in 1.0? # #The manual page for "passwd" mentions nothing about NetInfo. There #should be cross-references to niutil, niload, and nidump, and nu. #All sorts of wierd interactions occur. # #chfn and chsh don't work. This should be stated up front, when the #programs run, and not after you've typed in several lines of input #which it subsequently refuses to admit to NetInfo. # #There should be a program that gets all the files synchronized with #each other. # #There needs to be a document about NetInfo in general. # #/bin/passwd only updates NetInfo. It doesn't touch /etc/passwd or # /etc/passwd.dir or /etc/passwd.pag or /usr/adm/nu.passwd # #It is possible for more than one entry to exist in NetInfo for users. #We had it happen here. The output from nidump had an error message #concatenated with the root passwd entry. The error message should have #gone out stderr and not stdout, and should have had a newline following it. #We're still not sure how the multiple entries were created. # #Niutil will not -destroy a blank entry. What ARE those reference #numbers for, anyway (on the niutil -list listings)? There's no #documentation on how to use them. We had to resort to the #console administration program to do the job, which was annoying. # #nu is obnoxious about not allowing one to enter multiple superuser #accounts. We use them so that different people have different superuser #passwords. (It doesn't allow a uid of 0 to be entered). # #The entry of the Sri-Nic hosts file into NetInfo has been going on for #a couple of hours now, and still isn't done. Is this really the way to #do things? # #We have avoided running the Yellow Pages, and don't know what complexity and #bugs this would bring up. >From: jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong)
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