On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 01:09, zhicheng wang wrote: > Thanks for the message and that works well for us. But > how passwd changes nis passwd? i have read the man > page for passwd and in the Internet, nowhere said > passwd can change nis passwd, so never even thinking > of trying this way. > > Still i need to know how this happens and would be > most grateful if you can brief let me know more. It works through pam. If you look at /etc/pam.d/system-auth you should see an entry like: password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow nis The nis argument at the end of the line is the key. /etc/pam.d/system-auth is invoked by /etc/pam.d/passwd -- Ian -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
