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- From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: How to properly call rcp.yppasswdd.
- Message-ID: <JC.92Jul28173800@raven.bu.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 21:38:00 GMT
- References: <JC.92Jul28121813@raven.bu.edu>
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????'
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- In-reply-to: jc@raven.bu.edu's message of 28 Jul 92 16:18:13 GMT
-
- >>>>> "Me" == James Cameron <jc@raven.bu.edu> writes:
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- Me> System: Running SunOS 4.1.1
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- Me> Problem: rpc.passwdd does not correctly update NIS information.
- Me> I recall someone mentioning that there was a bug and you simply
- Me> needed to do somthing trivial. What might this be?
-
- Me> Thanks for the info!
-
- Me> --
-
-
- The "solution" is to call it with an invalid argument which is simply
- ignored:
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- if [ -f /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd ]; then
- /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd /etc/passwd -x -m passwd ; echo " yppasswdd "
- fi
-
- [...This is located in /etc/rc.local...]
-
- Thanks goes out to:
-
- Hannu Visti <visti@cs.hut.fi>
-
- and the many more I am sure to receive before this gets circulated. *8-)
-
- --
- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) (617) 353-2879
-
- System Manager, Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass
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