Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!jst From: jst@cca.ucsf.edu (Joe Stong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Remote NeXT Users, etc. Message-ID: <2428@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Date: 26 Sep 89 09:50:00 GMT References: <8248@oregon.uoregon.edu> <5103@ubc-cs.UUCP> <2422@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <1166@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU> <10435@csli.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: jst@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Joe Stong) Organization: Computer Center, UCSF Lines: 29 Many thanks to various folks that have offered help and question answering services. Particular thanks to Eric P. Scott (wet!epsilon@cca.ucsf.edu), who helped me set up "slave" nameservice, and suggested using Microsoft Word(tm) format output from WriteNow being at least near to ascii. Particular thanks also to the fellow who posted the WriteNow to troff converter (I can't get to the article just now). There's a problem with a misattribution: John Marco managed to make his response look like a quote from a posting of mine. The "I haven't been, etc. is part of John Marco's response, and not my quote. >In article <1166@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU>, pa1034@sdcc13.ucsd.EDU (John Marco) writes: >> In article <2422@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> jst@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Joe Stong) writes: >> I haven't been reading this group for very long (2 days), and I have absolutely >> NO experience with the Next Box. However, Some people have mentioned that one With respect to the "su" problem, I was able to create the secondary root login just fine, once I got rid of the second copy of "users" in NetInfo. While I had two "users" entries, it was interesting that I managed to get an "Intruder Alert" message from "su". My apologies for getting a bit snide in my previous message. I have been trying my best to prevent outright flamage, and would appreciate the same from responders. Thanks for support, and for people reminding Avadis that he's appreciated.