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nishil
2004 Feb 24
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passwd program for NIS?
...t for the passwd program.
First, the program must be run on the NIS master. Fine. It must be able
to change the users password without needing to know the old password
when executed by root. That's where I'm having problems. I can set the
'passwd program = /bin/passwd -r files -F /etc/NISFILES/passwd %u', but
that doesn't quite work the way I'd expect to.
This changes the users password in the /etc/NISFILES/passwd file just
fine, but after that I'd need to "cd /var/yp ; make passwd" which
sometimes take quite long (60 seconds). It for sure takes WAY longer
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