yppasswd replacement?

From: Dick Abraham <abrahad_at_govonca.gov.on.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:51:06 -0500 (EST)

Hello All Managers:

I have recently invoked NIS on our DU network of computers.
It is working fine.

Before switching to NIS I had dropped-in passwd+ to replace the
standard passwd executable. After using passwd+, yppasswd is
very difficult to live with.

yppasswd does almost no password checking
(it will take just about anything)

yppasswd has very bad error messages

e.g. -> old password entered incorrectly:
        error message: unable to change passwd on NIS server

e.g. -> password over 8 characters:
        error message: password mismatch.

Does anyone know how to get passwd+ to work with NIS or
does anyone have a drop-in replacement for yppasswd.

I need one badly.

Thanks.

Richard
Received on Thu Jan 23 1997 - 22:11:04 NZDT

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