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- From: tkt@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: where can I get a smart yppasswd?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.171640.14667@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 17:16:40 EDT
- References: <1992Aug25.114438.14611@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <W9LPBFLC@cc.swarthmore.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell University
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- In article <W9LPBFLC@cc.swarthmore.edu>,
- hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
- > 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.
-
- first of all, don't passwd and yppasswd lock the password file differently?
- I'm worried about this.
- And, the source password file lives in /usr/var/yp/src. I guess I could
- Change that... Besides, these machines have a lot of users that are
- unfamilar with Unix, and I don't want them to have to log into the server.
-
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- >
- >> 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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-
- yeah, I guess we could do this, but hasn't someone already written a better
- yppasswd?
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- >
- > --
- > Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu> : : : : : :: ::: :::: :::::
- > Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College : : : : : :: ::: :::: :::::
- > Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA. Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
- > I don't speak for Swarthmore College. All Rights Reserved.
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