[tech] (no subject)

Grahame Bowland gbowland at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Mon May 8 23:22:02 WST 2000


On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 06:51:26PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 06:42:28PM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> > now that we have NIS, is it possible to link passwd to yppasswd?
> 
> On which machine?
> 
> On a NIS aware machine, "passwd" probably does the right thing, hence
> people don't have to learn about "yppasswd" explicitly.

Doesn't seem to, but I've created a script on most machines.

Note - a symlink has undefined result under Linux. yppasswd, ypchfn and 
ypchsh are the same binary that check argv[0]. So create a script that 
runs yppasswd to replace passwd :-)

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