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Subject: YP/NIS and passwd weirdness
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:26:15 -0800
From: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
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I didn't see anything along these lines the the archive, so
here goes... (something different to the other threads running
these days.)

In 3.3.1 and 4.0-current, if one puts the following in /etc/passwd
to enable NIS logins:

	+:*:::::

then logins (console or ssh) of ordinary users don't work. After
gdb-ing ssh, I found that getpwnam() consistently returns "*" as
the user's password.

Removing the "*" makes things work again, but the security check
wails about a user w/o a password.

Question: Was this intentional behavior or should I submit a pr with
a patch?


-scooter




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