Re: Non-existent user able to log in??? hacked????

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

elijah wright <elw@stderr.org> writes:

> > It's been a long time, but IIRC, the NIS uses it's own dbm files which
> > are built from those in /etc. The test account must have existed when
> > you set it up.
> 
> Arnaud, if i remember correctly, there's a special directory you can go to
> and type 'make' - you get a set of rebuilt NIS databases as a result.

  make -C /var/yp

should do it. If not, force a rebuild with:

  touch /etc/passwd
  make -C /var/yp

Phil.