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From: jms@tardis.tymnet.com (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Using YP to change passwords
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 4 Jan 90 12:43:15 GMT
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In article <4002@brazos.Rice.edu> sequent!jsc@cs.utexas.edu writes:
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:yppasswd to change their password, the password gets changed in the YP
:database, but the client is not updated until the next time root pushes
:the passwd file with yppush.  The support folks tell me this is the
:functionality of 4.03.  Is that true?  Is so, how do some of the rest of
:you work with this?  Do you put yppush in crontab?

To do an automatic yppush whenever anyone runs yppasswd, simply add "-m"
to the line in /etc/rc, as in:

if [ -f /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd ]; then
	rpc.yppasswdd /etc/passwd -m;	(echo -n ' yppasswdd')	>/dev/console
fi

The -m tells yppasswdd to do the equivalent of "(cd /var/yp; make passwd)"
whenever yppasswd is invoked from any client.

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