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Re: NIS, /usr/bin/passwd, yppasswd



On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:03:58AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> I have just installed NIS on my network to keep passwords (among other
> things) in sync between machines.  Users should now use yppasswd to change
> the passwords on the client machines.  Would it be safe to rm
> /usr/bin/passwd and symlink yppasswd to it so that the changes are
> transparent to the users? Is there a better way to do it?  I considered
> entirely removing the passwd package, but it provides more than just
> /usr/bin/passwd and is in the 'required' section, so I figured it would be
> a very bad thing.

On the computers at school (the clients are running redhat 5.2), passwd is
linked to yppasswd.

I dont know if that is a recommandation since there are some configuration
errors on these machines but it seems to work :> (well, it used to until they
decided to add NT clients, now we have to use another program so that the samba
password is changed as well)

> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> noah

Hope this helps

-Lex

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