NIS, /usr/bin/passwd, yppasswd

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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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.

Thanks for any advice.

noah


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