tech-userlevel: Re: Using "rpc.yppasswdd" with NIS sources not in "/etc"

Subject: Re: Using "rpc.yppasswdd" with NIS sources not in "/etc"
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/18/2000 05:18:08

>on my NIS server the source for the NIS database are located in "/var/yp/etc"
>and not in "/etc". Is there any possibility to get "rpc.yppasswdd" working
>with this setup? So far it crashes after the first invokation of
>"yppasswd" without leaving any error message or at least I found none.

	not sure if it really works, but you may want to modify
	_PATH_MASTERPASSWD used in rpc.yppasswdd.

itojun