[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 :-)
--
Grahame Bowland gbowland at ucc.asn.au
http://gbowland.ucc.asn.au
0419 205 123
More information about the tech
mailing list