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From: [e-mail] (Alyosha Efros)
Subject: Re: managing passwd on two systems
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 03:20:16 GMT
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Thanks to everyone who answered my original question.  Most responces
suggest that I should use NIS (Yellow Pages in my case) to get the job
done. I installed YP on both machines one acting as a server, the other as
a slave.  Everything works fine if I don't touch the passwords. But here
is my problem:
  First, I installed YP by copying /etc/passwd to /var/yp/src/passwd,
making passwd on yp, and cleaning up /etc/passwd file from any user
entries. Then I aliased passwd to yppasswd and everything was fine until
my teacher decided to create a new account. It appeared that yppasswd
ALWAYS asked for the old password even on the brand new account.  So this
didn't work...
  Second, somebody suggested to me to link /etc/passwd and
/var/yp/scr/passwd.  The hard link didn't work because they are on
different devices so I did a soft link.  But this doesn't work either
because to set up an account one writes to /etc/passwd and to change a
password with yppasswd one uses /var/yp/src/passwd... So, what do I do?

Thanks in advance,
-Alyosha
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Alyosha (Alexei) Efros Jr. (12th grade!)    [e-mail]
System Manager & Computer Club President    [e-mail]
East High School, Salt Lake City, Utah        [phone]
    "Don't let school interfere with your education"