On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:13:50AM -0800, Sandeep Agarwal wrote: > no # yppasswd sandeep works perfectly but it asks for > the root password before changing the passwords, why > it should ask for that? The NIS server needs to know that the request is a valid one. If it just takes your word for it that you are root, that would be bad. The reason that root doesn't need to give a passwd when changing a passwd on the local machine is that root priviledges cannot, in theory, be faked with the local kernel. There is no such assurance for the kernel on a remote host, not without some kind of host authentication, which NIS does not have. -- Ed Schmollinger - schmolli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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