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03-30-2002

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If you boot from OS 9, you can do whatever you want to that file. Be careful! Additionally, if you follow file path /Applications/Utilities/NetInfo Manager and launch NetInfo Manager, you can follow the menu path Domain>Security to setup and enable the root user on your maching, aka the superuser. WRITE THE ROOT USER PASSWORD DOWN AND PUT IT IN A SAFE PLACE! DO *NOT* PROCEED UNTIL THIS IS DONE! After this is done, choose "Logout" from the Apple menu and log back in as the superuser by clicking on "Other" and typing in "root" as the username and the password you assigned. If "Other" does not appera, choose "System Preferences" from the Apple menu and go to the Users pane; you will be able to control what shows in the login window there. Once you are logged in as the superuser, all application programs, including the Finder, Terminal, and everything else launches with root access, and you can do pretty much whatever you want, but, again, BE CAREFUL. If you tell UNIX to do something silly, it won't second-guess you--it'll just do it, often before you even realize it's started.

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NIDOMAIN(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       NIDOMAIN(8)

NAME

       nidomain - NetInfo domain utility

SYNOPSIS

       nidomain -l [ hostname ]

       nidomain -m tag

       nidomain -d tag

       nidomain -c tag master/remotetag

DESCRIPTION

       The  nidomain utility is an interface to nibindd(8), to which it sends all of its requests about the domains served on a given machine.	It
       also can be used to create and destroy NetInfo databases.

       The nidomain utility will allow one to create multiple levels of NetInfo hierarchy, but it is not a particularly easy way to  do  it.   One
       should use the NetInfo Manager application for setting up multilevel hierarchies.

OPTIONS

       -l [ hostname ]
	      List the domains by tag served on the given hostname.  If hostname is unspecified, the local host is used.

       -m tag Create a new NetInfo database and server on the local machine for the domain tag of tag.

       -d tag Destroy  the  local NetInfo database and server associated with the domain tagged tag.  If the database was associated with a clone,
	      the machine's ``serves'' property on the master is NOT modified to reflect the fact that the database has been deleted.

       -c tag master/remotetag
	      Creates a clone NetInfo database with the domain tagged tag.  The database is cloned from the machine master and remote tag  remote-
	      tag.  The machine's ``serves'' property should be set up prior to running this command to contain the entry "./tag".

SEE ALSO

       nibindd(8)

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