[m-rev.] trivial diff: fix NIS servers in add_new_user.html

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Dec 16 03:05:50 AEDT 2003


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Branches: main

w3/information/developers/add_new_user.html:
	Avoid hard-coding the NIS server names.

Workspace: /mnt/ceres/home/ceres/fjh/mercury
Index: w3/information/developers/add_new_user.html
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/information/developers/add_new_user.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -d -r1.4 add_new_user.html
--- w3/information/developers/add_new_user.html	8 Oct 2002 06:44:57 -0000	1.4
+++ w3/information/developers/add_new_user.html	15 Dec 2003 16:03:39 -0000
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" >
 <h1>Adding a new user.</h1>
 
-hydra is our master NIS server, with ender being our secondary
-slave server; for more details on how NIS was setup, see the file
+Our NIS servers are listed near the end of /home/mercury/public/hosts.
+For more details on how NIS was setup, see the file
 <A HREF="http://hydra.cs.mu.oz.au/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz">
 nis.debian.howto</A> in
 <A HREF="http://hydra.cs.mu.oz.au/doc/nis">/usr/doc/nis</A> on hydra.
@@ -16,16 +16,16 @@
 <P>
 
 Get the new users /etc/passwd entry from mundook and then add it to /etc/passwd
-on hydra (using vipw to be safe).
+on the NIS master server (using vipw to be safe).
 
 <P>
 
-Add the new user to group mercury in /etc/group on hydra (using vigr to
-be safe).
+Add the new user to group mercury in /etc/group on the NIS master server
+(using vigr to be safe).
 
 <P>
 
-Then execute the following commands as root on hydra to
+Then execute the following commands as root on the NIS master server to
 update the NIS database.
 
 <P>

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The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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