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[Erik Price]

pll at lanminds.com wrote:

>>And the machine I *do* run is MacOS X, which doesn't use an /etc/passwd
>>file for user info.)
> 
> 
> Really?  I thought OS X was BSD?  Where is user info stored?  Is 
> there an /etc/passwd file?

NeXT machines used a database called NetInfo to store information that 
you'd normally think of going in the /etc/passwd file.  I know I know, 
when I first heard about it, I was like "what the heck?".  Apparently 
the point is that the information in the database can be propagated 
across a network so that a user can log into any machine on the LAN 
using the login information stored on any of the systems.  MacOS X uses 
NetInfo, though there *is* an /etc/passwd file (just blank).  I must 
admit, I really have no idea how it works, since I have never seen a 
network of more than 2 or 3 Mac OS X boxes.

But someone told me recently that the Mac is moving to an LDAP-style 
system, not sure....


Erik