On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Eric Fox wrote:

> I was under the impression that root on the NIS Master could change
> user's passwords without using NIS.

I guess this is true if the NIS password table == /etc/master.passwd.

In my case I have a separate password database in /var/yp/etc without
root and other system accounts (i.e. only the user accounts). I've done
this by modifying /var/yp/Makefile.yp and using the following rc.conf
settings:

yppasswdd=YES
yppasswdd_flags="-d /var/yp"

--- /usr/src/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypinit/Makefile.yp Mon Aug  6 20:28:19 2001
+++ /var/yp/Makefile.yp Fri Aug  9 10:32:06 2002
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # linux and solaris type shadow maps.

 YPDBDIR=       /var/yp
-DIR=           /etc
+DIR=           /var/yp/etc
 AMDDIR=                /etc/amd
 AMDMAPS=       amd.home
 DOMAIN=                ${.CURDIR:T}

sl:/var/yp/etc> ls -l
total 84
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     97 Dec 11 15:26 group
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    108 May 17  2002 hosts
-rw-------  1 root  wheel    559 Dec 11 15:25 master.passwd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    435 Dec 11 15:23 passwd
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  40960 Dec 11 15:23 pwd.db
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  40960 Dec 11 15:23 spwd.db

Martti

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