[638] in Moira
Re: Getting started DCM question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon A. Rochlis)
Sat Jul 17 16:01:49 1993
To: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: lidl@uunet.uu.net, Dale_Moore@MOORE.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU, moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Jul 1993 18:16:13 EDT."
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1993 16:00:25 -0400
From: "Jon A. Rochlis" <jon@GZA.COM>
I think some of the confusion is caused by the directory (finger)
service being run on athena.mit.edu. Moria does generate a
/etc/passwd style file to send to athena.mit.edu. Athena does care
about anything other than username and directory info (e.g. real name,
phone number, office phone, etc.). Athena compiles this into a dbm
database (mkpasswd) and points fingerd at that. It's never used as a
real /etc/passwd ... (that is indeed done via Hesiod).
This has nothing to do with the MIT-wide white pages run from mit.edu
(forwarding to mitdir.mit.edu) which uses the CSO nameserver ... Moira
does not not feed MITDIR, but we always wanted to make it do so at
some point.
-- Jon
