FreeBSD NIS server and LINUX NIS clients

[Andrew Milton]

+-------[ Stavros M Grigorakakis ]----------------------
|
|  FreeBSD NIS clients seem not have spotted the difference.
|  However having searched for possible implications i must point out that
| the asterisk is used in the
|  /usr/src/usr.sbin/rpc.yppasswdd/yppasswdd_server.c  (read comments line
| 348 )  so i suggest changing line 416
|   pw->pw_name, *(ptr+1) == '*' ? "*" : pw->pw_passwd,
| to
|    pw->pw_name, *(ptr+1) == ('*'||'x') ? "x" : pw->pw_passwd,


*(ptr+1) == ('*'||'x') is pretty much always going to be false, which means
you're passing the password out all the time, which is why your Linux clients
work after this change.

You might as well use the UNSECURE="TRUE" flag in the Makefile, which would
achieve the same result.

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