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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
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Subject: yppasswdd -m problems
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 the NIS password daemon (yppasswdd) in FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE does not work
 correctly when the password database file is not /etc/master.passwd.

 when started as:
	yppasswdd -m /var/yp/master.passwd
 we have the following problems:

	1) still need an account entry in /etc/master.passwd for user on NIS
	   server.
	2) the /etc/master.passwd password must be the same as
	   /var/yp/master.passwd on the NIS server to change the password
	   on the client.

 I do not want these users in the /etc/master.passwd of the NIS server, that is
 the whole reason for not using the /etc/master.passwd as the NIS password. I
 would change the problem, but I could not the sources to yppasswdd.

--mark.