Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 09:37:44 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Wankle Rotary Engine) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS stuff update Message-ID: <199501020837.JAA24210@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199501010314.WAA02955@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Dec 31, 94 10:14:29 pm
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Wankle Rotary Engine wrote: > - Teach yppasswdd how to handle FreeBSD's password database system. I have begun to write a yppasswdd some time ago, when I thought I had the time to finish it. Turned out I was wrong. Anyway, I used some of the routines from passwd and vipw; building the database is handled by makedbm (or yp_mkdb as you called it). > I don't suppose anybody knows how to export /etc/master.passwd without > the whole world being able to see it. You should not need /etc/master.password. YP should have its own database in /var/yp. The /etc/master.password should only regulate access to the server and not contain the user entries for the machines in the current domain. This was one thing I didn't like about the Linux YP implementation when I looked it a while ago. tg
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