unix password sync problems!

Dan Stromberg strombrg at hydra.acs.uci.edu
Thu Apr 2 00:13:22 GMT 1998


Has anyone done this sort of password synch'ing with NIS?

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> Ok - here are the lines I use for FreeBSD for
> password chat script.
> 
> Note that the 'password chat' option is one
> *long* line - mailers may wrap it :-).
> 
>    passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd -l %u
>    passwd chat = *\n*ew\spassword* %n\n *ew\spassword* %n\n*updating\sthe\sdatabase...\npasswd:\sdone\n
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>         Jeremy.
> 
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