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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