NetBSD Problem Report #5285
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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 22:02:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: habern@caledon.org
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: chfn et al do not support an alternative to /etc/passwd defeating YP.
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>Number: 5285
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: chfn et al do not support an alternative to /etc/passwd defeating YP.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bin-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Apr 11 22:05:00 +0000 1998
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Nik Habermel
>Release: 1.3
>Organization:
Canadian Medical Labs
>Environment:
NetBSD bones 1.3 NetBSD 1.3 (BONES) #1: Fri Feb 13 20:56:30 EST 1998 root@te
st1:/src/kernelsrc/arch/i386/compile/BONES i386
>Description:
As recommended in the O'Reilly book on NIS, it often makes sense to have the
user portion of the NIS password table seperate from the master.passwd
file. These utilities have a blind spot here.
In addition, it would be useful to have an option in them and in vipw to
allow RCSing of /etc/passwd. This would entail changes to passwd(1) and
yppasswdd(8) as well. A single environment variable or, better, a configuration
file would be useful here.
Using an editor for the personal info isn't very good if you want
a web engine to fdrive the change. Command line alternatives would
be great.
It is true that pwd_mkdb(8) allows an alternative directory
but this doesn't seem to be reachable from the chfn et. al family.
An environment variable here would be the best way
>How-To-Repeat:
Just try to get these guys to work once you run YP.
>Fix:
chmod 0 these tools and build your own to replace them.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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