dear managers,
there was a discussion regarding POP server, Eudora mail and password server
recently on this list.
i've got poppassd with OSF1 support, compiled and ran from inetd. this worked
fine with local /etc/passwd entries. offered solution, however, doesn't work
against NIS password.
i tried to replace "execl ("/bin/passwd" ..." with "execl ("/bin/yppasswd" .."
and i put couple more strings to handle dialogue with "yppasswd". no luck!
"waitpid()" just hangs waiting for the child that execl "/bin/yppasswd" .
furthermore NIS password _is_ changed, but "/bin/yppasswd"(created by execl)
becomes "<defunct>" , poppassd (created by inetd) is waiting for it to finish
(forever or untill i kill them). is this an OS bug or what?
has anybody succeded in getting this to work?
thanks!
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Received on Mon Dec 11 1995 - 23:03:47 NZDT