On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:37:32PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> the NIS server has all necessary hooks to use a different passwd
> database from the system one (e.g serve passwd from /etc/nis/master.passwd
> instead of /etc/master.passwd). This is especially usefull in evironnements
> where you don't want to have user accounts on servers (or different user
> accounts than the ones provided though NIS). The only problem is
> rpc.yppasswdd, which uses getpwnam() to get the user's passwd entry.
> 
> The attached patche fixes it by remplacing getpwnam() with a function
> getting the line from the NIS passwd file. This could also be a funtion
> pw_getpwnam() in libutil, honoring pw_setprefix(). But going this way
> would also require implementing pw_getpwuid() and pw_getpwent() to be
> consistent. This would be a lot of code for only one customer, which would
> only use one function.
> 
> Comments ? If I get no objections I'll commit this in the near future.

Hi folks
I commited this.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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