[news.software.b] How do you manage multiple /etc/passwd files?

guy@gorodish.UUCP (02/15/87)

In article <364@boulder.UUCP> cdash@nike.UUCP (Charles Shub) writes:
>In article <286@desoto.UUCP> shz@desoto.UUCP (S. Zirin) writes:
>>In <2253@felix.UUCP> zemon writes:
>>
>>> <request>
>>>
>><response>
>
>zemon's response to zirin's timely request is non-productive.

Zemon's response to Zirin's request is non-*existent*, as is Zirin's
request.  Zirin's response to Zemon's request is what is in question
here.

Was this just a slip of the mind, or do the attribution lines stuck
in (with the best of intentions, I'm sure) by various netnews
programs possibly cause more problems than they're worth?  (I
*always* delete them, simply to avoid this kind of problem.)