Re: pam and yppasswd on Red Hat LINUX 6.1

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On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Rick Goyette wrote:

> That works nicely.  One thing:  This assumes that all passwords are 
> handled through the NIS server.  What if a system, in addition to 
> allowing NIS users, also had a few local accounts.  Is there a way 
> for pam to distinguish between the two, and not use nis to change the 
> password for a local account?

Old passwd from redhat (maybe that's the one you use) had a nice
option -N just for this purpose. Read passwd man page for details.

Jan
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