From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 2 00:39:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA24248 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 00:39:21 -0800 Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA24241 for ; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 00:39:14 -0800 Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.6) id JAA24210; Mon, 2 Jan 1995 09:37:45 +0100 From: Thomas Gellekum Message-Id: <199501020837.JAA24210@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: NIS stuff update To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Wankle Rotary Engine) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 09:37:44 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199501010314.WAA02955@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Dec 31, 94 10:14:29 pm Organization: Institut f. Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 793 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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