On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:50:05AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 11:15, Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> > wrote: > > > Or do you have to be root for getpwnam() to work on NIS accounts? > > In certain NIS configurations you can only access the hashed password > > if your query to the NIS server comes from a privileged port <=1024, > > i.e. afaict yes. > This is so ugly. Last I looked, there wasn't much in NIS that wasn't. I think the amount of pain we should put other users through on account of NIS is very small (e.g., no longer asking about non-md5 passwords on install). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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