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- From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: where can I get a smart yppasswd?
- Message-ID: <W9LPBFLC@cc.swarthmore.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 01:19:26 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.114438.14611@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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- tkt@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- > 1. it will allow root to change user's passwords without prompting for the
- > old password
-
- login to the NIS server, su, passwd, cd /var/yp, make.
-
- > 2. it will allow users to change their shell and finger information.
-
- Have them execute chfn on the NIS server. For finger stuff, have them edit
- their ~.plan files.
-
- You probably wanted something that will do all this from one single program
- on a NIS slave host. I don't know if such a beast exists although you can
- write a small suid program that remotely executes the proper commands, I
- guess.
-
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