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...ry in /etc/nsswitch.conf has the "allowed" values like files, nis, nisplus and ldap. Both passwd and telnet/rlogin will eventually call passwdutil.so.1 indirectly. The crude hack, which relies on the lucky coincidence that the words "nisplus" and "winbind" both have 7 chararcters, is to use a hex-editor to replace a couple of the "nisplus" strings inside passwdutil.so.1 binary file with "winbind". After that, did some testing with telnet, rlogin, ftp, passwd, password expiring as well as winbind, all seem to work ok. At this point, the nsswitch.conf has...