actually as I recall Mac OS X doesn't use /etc/passwd (or shadow) for 
authentication.  It uses netinfo which in it's current form looks very 
LDAPish to me though I can't say I have actually looked into it.


On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 01:04  PM, David wrote:

> 	Is anything authenticating users logging into a MacOS-X box
> 	against a NetBSD server, via NIS, Samba, or some other method?
>
> 	Actually I suppose I could rsync the password files across, but it
> 	somehow seems inelegant :)
>
>
>
> -- 
> 			David Brownlee - abs@mono.org