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- From: shani@GENIUS.TAU.AC.IL (Oren Shani)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Does yp use a user named `+' with no password?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.104123.5287@aristo.tau.ac.il>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 10:41:23 GMT
- References: <DAVE.92Aug20141601@pipi.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <k2.714296613@woodstock>
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- Organization: Tel Aviv University School of Math and CS, ISRAEL
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- In article <k2.714296613@woodstock> k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes:
- >
- >What you have done, was to disable all of them with the '*' in their
- >password fields.
- >
-
- Nope. What he did is to put a meaningless line in his password file and to
- instruct his system not to use the NIS passwd map (or reather not instructing
- it to use it).
-
- I suggest people should at least read SunOS's System & Network admin book,
- before they venture to touch /etc files.
-
-
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- __ __ Oren Shani (shani@genius.tau.ac.il)
- / / / Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv university
- / / -- Israel
- /__/ . __/ . "Hold your temper" -- The caterpillar to Alice
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