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Date:      Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:29:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: YP/NIS and passwd weirdness
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904021728190.12520-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199904030126.RAA62422@mordred.cs.ucla.edu>

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Umm- it's never supposed to have been with a '*' in it for this YP
implementation, I believe. Fixing the security check would be  a good
thing. Going to pam/nsswitch.conf would be even better.


On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Scott Michel wrote:

> 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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