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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: NIS/yp ported?
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:45:28 -0700
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I'm just curious - I have a function that I use on Unix to do basically 
a ypcat passwd | grep -i $@. It's very useful in looking up users 
especially since ore and more corporations use anonymous numbers or IDs 
to represent people. But I have to log into the Unix system to do it.

I was wondering if there was a cygwin port of NIS or YP so that I could 
do this ypcat from within Cygwin.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
I was self-employed for two years, and boy was my boss a turkey! :-)


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