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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: Does yp use a user named `+' with no password?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.200010.24763@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:00:10 GMT
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- shani@GENIUS.TAU.AC.IL (Oren Shani) writes:
-
- >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).
-
- Incorrect. Klaus Steinberger is correct, atleast where Sun's NIS implementation
- is concerend.
-
- >I suggest people should at least read SunOS's System & Network admin book,
- >before they venture to touch /etc files.
-
- I'd suggest people check their facts before they post. This
- behaviour (replacing passwd, gecod, home or shell field in a
- + passwd entry) is documented in passwd(5). (And I've used
- it and it worked)
-
- Casper
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