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- From: janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson)
- Subject: Re: yp (nis) map changes - how do they happen
- Message-ID: <janet.714981984@dunnart>
- Keywords: passwd yp nis
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- Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
- References: <1992Aug27.180340.729@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 06:06:24 GMT
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- In <1992Aug27.180340.729@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca> brian@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca (Brian J. Murrell") writes:
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- >1. Is this [password changes] allowed on any machine, or just the master
- > where the "real" passwd file is?
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- on any machine
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- >2. If so, then the passwd program must be YP intelligent. Is this a possiblity?
-
- Sure is
-
- >3. If 1 and 2 are true then the passwd utility on each machine must be able to
- >update the master and the maps? True??
-
- Yes
- There is a daemon, yppasswdd(8) (at least, it's called that on SunOS4.1.1)
- which passwd(1) talks to. This daemon does the updating. It runs on the
- YP master.
-
- >Or maybe I'm just living in a dream world??
-
- I won't speculate on that :-)
-
- Janet Jackson
- <janet@cs.uwa.edu.au>
- Systems Administrator
- Department of Computer Science
- The University of Western Australia
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