samba - Oct 2000 - yppasswd for password sync

I've had no problem setting up password sync with 'passwd' but now I
set
up an NIS domain and need 'yppasswd'.  The problem I've run accross
is
that 'yppasswd' (when run as root) asks for the root password before
going
any further.  To verify that's what was going on, I modified the 'passwd
chat' parameter to include the Q&A pair with the root password.  It
worked, but I REALLY don't want the root password stored, plain-text, in
my smb.conf file.

If any of you have had a similar problem and have a better solution,
please reply to:

todd.4 "at" wright.edu

Thanks.
Jason

Jason Todd wrote:
> 			 The problem I've run accross is
>that 'yppasswd' (when run as root) asks for the root password
> before going any further.  
	Erk!!!
	I assume it's linux/bsd, as solaris doesn't do that
	(the man page says "The use of yppasswd is discouraged,
	 as it is now only a link to  the  passwd(1)  command,
	 which  should be used instead.")

	It should never prompt for root's passwords if it's
	called by a process running as root: sounds suspiciously
	like a bug!

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