[Samba] PDC, NIS and password sync.

[Lasse Taul Bjerre]

Sure - but I must warn you - i'm not a programming wizz

/Lasse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Homann, Mathias [mailto:Mathias.Homann at airbus.dasa.de]
> Sent: 5. marts 2002 09:40
> To: Lasse Taul Bjerre; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] PDC, NIS and password sync.
> 
> 
> "Homann, Mathias" wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK that approach is *almost* the same that yppasswdd takes; when you
> > change the password with yppasswd, yppasswdd modifies the source you
> > built the databases on the NIS server from, then runs make. So I don't
> > think that could give you trouble *EXCEPT* in the time between changing
> > the password and cron running make.
> 
> 
> OTOH, 
> 
> as I'm going to have to look into the very same topic soon, let's build
> something better.
> consisting of:
> - a wrapper script/program which wraps nicely around passwd, so that it
> sets the new passwd _AND_ touches a flag file in /tmp or wherelse
> 
> - a cron job which runs not every 15 minutes but every minute, but
> checks with [ -f /tmp/passwdchanged ] if the flagfile exists before
> running make in /var/yp
> 
> OR:
> - change yppasswd so that it does NOT require a root password for
> chaning other users passwords, then have samba call yppasswd instead of
> passwd.
> 
> You're in?
> 
> 
> 	MH
>