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Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.\"
.Dd February 8, 1996
.Dt RPC.YPPASSWDD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm rpc.yppasswdd
.Nd "server for updating NIS passwords"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Op Fl t Ar master.passwd template file
.Op Fl d Ar default domain
.Op Fl p Ar path
.Op Fl s
.Op Fl f
.Op Fl a
.Op Fl m
.Op Fl i
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Op Fl v
.Op Fl u
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Op Fl h
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
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utility allows users to change their NIS passwords and certain
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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other information using the
.Xr yppasswd 1
and
.Xr ypchpass 1
commands.
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The
.Nm
utility
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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is an RPC-based server that accepts incoming password change requests,
authenticates them, places the updated information in the
.Pa /var/yp/master.passwd
template file and then updates the NIS
.Pa master.passwd
and
.Pa passwd
maps.
.Pp
The
.Nm
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utility allows a normal NIS user to change
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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his or her NIS password, full name (also
known as 'GECOS' field) or shell.
These updates are typically done using
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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the
.Xr yppasswd 1 ,
.Xr ypchfn 1 ,
.Xr ypchsh 1 ,
or
.Xr ypchpass 1
commands.
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(Some administrators do not want users to be able to change their
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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full name information or shells; the server can be invoked with option flags
that disallow such changes.)
When the server receives an update request,
it compares the address of the client making the request against the
.Pa securenets
rules outlined in
.Pa /var/yp/securenets .
(See the
.Xr ypserv 8
manual page for more information on securenets; the
.Nm
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utility uses the same access control mechanism as
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.Xr ypserv 8 . )
.Pp
The server then
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checks the 'old' password supplied by the user to make sure it is
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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valid, then performs some sanity checks on the updated information (these
include checking for embedded control characters, colons or invalid shells).
Once it is satisfied that the update request is valid, the server modifies
the template password file (the default is
.Pa /var/yp/master.passwd )
and then runs the
.Pa /usr/libexec/yppwupdate
script to rebuild the NIS maps.
(This script has two arguments passed
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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to it: the absolute pathname of the password template that was modified
and the name of the domain that is to be updated.
These in turn are
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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passed to
.Pa /var/yp/Makefile ) .
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Pp
The
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.Fx
version of
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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also allows the super-user on the NIS master server to perform more
sophisticated updates on the NIS passwd maps.
The super-user can modify
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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any field in any user's master.passwd entry in any domain, and can
do so without knowing the user's existing NIS password (when the server
receives a request from the super-user, the password authentication
check is bypassed).
Furthermore, if the server is invoked with the
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Fl a
flag, the super-user can even add new entries to the maps using
.Xr ypchpass 1 .
Again, this only applies to the super-user on the NIS
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master server: none of these special functions can be performed over
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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the network.
.Pp
The
.Nm
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utility can only be run on a machine that is an NIS master server.
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Sh OPTIONS
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.It Fl t Ar master.passwd template file
By default,
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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assumes that the template file used to generates the
.Pa master.passwd
and
.Pa passwd
maps for the default domain is called
.Pa /var/yp/master.passwd .
This default can be overridden by specifying an alternate file name
with the
.Fl t
flag.
.Pp
Note: if the template file specified with this flag is
.Pa /etc/master.passwd ,
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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will also automatically invoke
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
to rebuild the local password databases in addition to the NIS
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maps.
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.It Fl d Ar domain
The
.Nm
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utility can support multiple domains, however it must
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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choose one domain as a default.
It will try to use the system default domain name as set by the
.Xr domainname 1
command for this default.
However,
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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if the system domain name is not
set, a default domain must be specified on
the command line.
If the system default domain is set,
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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then this option can be used to override it.
.It Fl p Ar path
This option can be used to override the default path to
the location of the NIS
map databases.
The compiled-in default path is
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Pa /var/yp .
.It Fl s
Disallow changing of shell information.
.It Fl f
Disallow changing of full name ('GECOS') information.
.It Fl a
Allow additions to be made to the NIS passwd databases.
The super-user on the
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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NIS master server is permitted to use the
.Xr ypchpass 1
command to perform unrestricted modifications to any field in a user's
.Pa master.passwd
map entry.
When
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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is started with this flag, it will also allow the super-user to add new
records to the NIS passwd maps, just as is possible when using
.Xr chpass 1
to modify the local password database.
.It Fl m
Turn on multi-domain mode.
Even though
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Xr ypserv 8
can handle several simultaneous domains, most implementations of
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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can only operate on a single NIS domain, which is generally the same as
the system default domain of the NIS master server.
The
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.Fx
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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attempts to overcome this problem in spite of the inherent limitations
of the
.Pa yppasswd
protocol, which does not allow for a
.Pa domain
argument in client requests.
In multi-domain mode,
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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will search through all the passwd maps of all the domains it
can find under
.Pa /var/yp
until it finds an entry that matches the user information specified in
a given update request.
(Matches are determined by checking the username,
UID and GID fields.)
The matched entry and corresponding domain are then
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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used for the update.
.Pp
Note that in order for multi-domain mode to work, there have to be
separate template files for each domain.
For example, if a server
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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supports three domains,
.Pa foo ,
.Pa bar ,
and
.Pa baz ,
there should be three separate master.passwd template files called
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Pa /var/yp/foo/master.passwd ,
.Pa /var/yp/bar/master.passwd ,
and
.Pa /var/yp/baz/master.passwd .
If
.Pa foo
happens to be the system default domain, then its template file can
be either
.Pa /var/yp/foo/master.passwd
or
.Pa /var/yp/master.passwd .
The server will check for the latter file first and then use the former
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if it cannot find it.
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Pp
Multi-domain mode is off by default since it can fail if there are
duplicate or near-duplicate user entries in different domains.
The server
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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will abort an update request if it finds more than one user entry that
matches its search criteria.
Even so, paranoid administrators
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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may wish to leave multi-domain mode disabled.
.It Fl i
If
.Nm
is invoked with this flag, it will perform map updates in place.
This
means that instead of just modifying the password template file and
starting a map update, the server will modify the map databases
directly.
This is useful when the password maps are large: if, for
example, the password database has tens of thousands of entries, it
can take several minutes for a map update to complete.
Updating the
maps in place reduces this time to a few seconds.
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.It Fl v
Turn on verbose logging mode.
The server normally only logs messages
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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using the
.Xr syslog 3
facility when it encounters an error condition, or when processing
updates for the super-user on the NIS master server.
Running the server
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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with the
.Fl v
flag will cause it to log informational messages for all updates.
.It Fl u
Many commercial
.Xr yppasswd 1
clients do not use a reserved port when sending requests to
.Nm .
This is either because the
.Xr yppasswd 1
program is not installed set-uid root, or because the RPC
implementation does not place any emphasis on binding to reserved
ports when establishing client connections for the super-user.
By default,
.Nm
expects to receive requests from clients using reserved ports; requests
received from non-privileged ports are rejected.
Unfortunately, this
behavior prevents any client systems that to not use privileged
ports from successfully submitting password updates.
Specifying
the
.Fl u
flag to
.Nm
disables the privileged port check so that it will work with
.Xr yppasswd 1
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clients that do not use privileged ports.
This reduces security to
a certain small degree, but it might be necessary in cases where it
is not possible to change the client behavior.
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.It Fl h
Display the list of flags and options understood by
.Nm .
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
.It Pa /usr/libexec/yppwupdate
The script invoked by
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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to update and push the NIS maps after
an update.
.It Pa /var/yp/master.passwd
The template password file for the default domain.
.It Pa /var/yp/[domainname]/[maps]
The NIS maps for a particular NIS domain.
.It Pa /var/yp/[domainname]/master.passwd
The template password file(s) for non-default domains
(used only in multi-domain mode).
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr yp 8 ,
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Xr yppush 8 ,
1997-01-20 00:03:00 +00:00
.Xr ypserv 8 ,
.Xr ypxfr 8
2005-01-18 20:02:45 +00:00
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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.Sh BUGS
As listed in the yppasswd.x protocol definition, the YPPASSWDPROC_UPDATE
procedure takes two arguments: a V7-style passwd structure containing
updated user information and the user's existing unencrypted (cleartext)
password.
Since
.Nm
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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is supposed to handle update requests from remote NIS client machines,
this means that
.Xr yppasswd 1
and similar client programs will in fact be transmitting users' cleartext
passwords over the network.
.Pp
This is not a problem for password updates since the plaintext password
sent with the update will no longer be valid once the new encrypted password
is put into place, but if the user is only updating his or her 'GECOS'
information or shell, then the cleartext password sent with the update
will still be valid once the update is completed.
If the network is
Import new rpc.yppasswdd. (Note: accompanying changes to passwd(1) and chpass(1) are on the way too.) This version supports all the features of the old one and adds several new ones: - Supports real multi-domain operation (optional, can be turned on with a command-line flag). This means you can actually have several different domains all served from one NIS server and allow users in any of the supported domains to change their passwords. The old yppasswdd only allowed changing passwords in the domain that was set as the system default domain name on the NIS master server. The new one can change passwords in any domain by trying to match the user information passed to it against all the passwd maps it can find. This is something of a hack, but the yppasswd.x protocol definiton does not allow for a domain to be passwd as an argument to rpc.yppasswdd, so the server has no choice but to grope around for a likely match. Since this method can fail if the same user exists in two domains, this feature is off by default. If the feature is turned on and the server becomes confused by duplicate entries, it will abort the update. - Does not require NIS client services to be available. NIS servers do _NOT_ necessarily have to be configured as NIS clients in order to function: the ypserv, ypxfr and yppush programs I've written recently will operate fine even if the system domain name isn't set, ypbind isn't running and there are no magic '+' entries in any of the /etc files. Now rpc.yppasswdd is the same way. The old yppasswdd would not work like this because it depended on getpwent(3) and friends to look up users: this will obviously only work if the system where yppasswdd is running is configured as an NIS client. The new rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use getpwent(3) at all: instead it searches through the master.passwd map databases directly. This also makes it easier for it to handle multiple domains. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master server to change any user's password without requiring password authentication. rpc.yppasswdd creates a UNIX domain socket (/var/run/ypsock) which it monitors using the same svc_run() loop used to handle incoming RPC requests. It also clears all the permission bits for /var/run/ypsock; since this socket is owned by root, this prevents anyone except root from successfully connect()ing to it. (Using a UNIX domain socket also prevents IP spoofing attacks.) By building code into passwd(1) and chpass(1) to take advantage of this 'trusted' channel, the superuser can use them to send private requests to rpc.yppasswdd. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to use chpass(1) to update _all_ of a user's master.passwd information. The UNIX domain access point accepts a full master.passwd style structure (along with a domain name and other information), which allows the superuser to update all of a user's master.passwd information in the NIS master.passwd maps. Normal users on NIS clients are still only allowed to change their full name and shell information with chpass. - Allows the superuser on the NIS master to _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps using chpass(1). This feature is also switchable with a command-line flag and is off by default.
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insecure, this cleartext password could be intercepted and used to
gain unauthorized access to the user's account.