Sincronize /etc/passwd and /etc/yp/passwd.master

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 28), ^Angelo Rodrigues said:
> On Monday 28 April 2003 15:16, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] ^Angelo Rodrigues wrote:
> > > I'm trying to find an effective way to sincronize
> > > /etc/passwd.master and /etc/yp/passwd.master (at the same time)
> > > without having to force all local users to run two commands,
> > > passwd and yppasswd. Any ideia?
> >
> > a)
> > a simbolic link:    /var/yp/master.passwd -> /etc/master.passwd
> >
> > b) change your /var/yp/Makefile to take /etc/master.passwd
> > instead of /var/yp/master.passwd
> 
> Hmmm...but this will force the same home directory between the server
> and the client.

You want the same password; why wouldn't you want the same homedir and
shell also?  All our NIS users have their homedir set to
/net/homedirmachine/home/username.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com