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Bill Paul c2dfe9fe01 Merge in changes to support the new rpc.yppasswdd(8) and fix a few bugs. 
In passwd(1):

- Gut most of yp_passwd.c and leave only a few things that aren't common
  to pw_yp.c.

- Add support for -d and -h flags to select domains and NIS server hosts
  to use when updating NIS passwords. This allows passwd(1) to be used
  for changing NIS passwords from machines that aren't configured as
  NIS clients. (This is mostly to allow passwd(1) to work on NIS master
  servers that aren't configured as clients -- an NIS server need not
  necessarily be configured as a client itself.)

  NOTE: Realize that having the ability to specify a domain and hostname
  lets you use passwd(1) (and chpass(1) too) to submit update requests
  to yppasswd daemons running on remote servers in remote domains which
  you may not even be bound to. For example, my machine at home is not
  an NIS client of the servers on the network that I manage, yet I can
  easily change my password at work using my FreeBSD box at home by doing:
  'passwd -d work.net.domain -h any.nis.server.on.my.net wpaul'. (Yes,
  I do use securenets at work; temporarily modified my securenets file
  to give my home system access.) Some people may not be too thrilled
  with this idea. Those who don't like this feature can recompile passwd(1)
  and chpass(1) with -DPARANOID to restrict the use of these flags to
  the superuser.

  (Oh, I should be adding proper securenets support to ypserv(8) and
  rpc.yppasswdd(8) over the weekend.)

- Merge in changes to allow root on the NIS master server to bypass
  authentication and change any user's NIS password. (The super-user
  on the NIS master already has privileges to do this, but doing it
  through passwd(1) is much easier than updating the maps by hand.)
  Note that passwd(1) communicates with rpc.yppasswdd(8) via a UNIX
  domain socket instead of via standard RPC/IP in this case.

- Update man page.

In chpass(1):

- Fix pw_yp.c to work properly in environments where NIS client
  services aren't available.

- Use realloc() instead of malloc() in copy_yp_pass() and copy_local_pass().

- Fix silly bug in copy_yp_pass(); some of the members of the passwd
  structure weren't being filled in correctly. (This went unnoticed
  for a while since the old yppasswdd didn't allow changes to the
  fields that were being botched.)

- chpass(1) now also allows the superuser on the NIS master server to
  make unrestricted changes to any user's NIS password information.

- Use UNIX domain comm channel to rpc.yppasswdd(8) when run by the
  superuser on the NIS master. This allows several new things:

   o superuser can update an entire master.passwd.{byname,byuid} entry
   o superuser can update records in arbitrary domains using -d flag to
     select a domain (before you could only change the default domain)
   o superuser can _add_ records to the NIS master.passwd maps, provided
     rpc.yppasswdd(8) has been started with the -a flag (to do this,
     the superuser must force NIS operation by specifying the -y flag
     to chpass(1) along with -a, i.e. 'chpass -y -a 'foo:::::::::')

- Back out the 'chpass -a <new password entry> breaks with NIS' fix
  from the last revision and fix it properly this time. The previous
  revision fixed the immediate problem but broke NIS operation in
  some cases.

- In edit.c, be a little more reasonable about deciding when to
  prevent the shell field from being changed.

  Submitted by Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>, who said:

  "I made a minor (one-line) modification to chpass, with regards
   to whether or not it allows the changing of shells.  In the 2.0.5 code,
   field changing follows the settings specified in the "list" structure
   defined in table.c .  For the shell, though, this is ignored.  A quick
   look in edit.c showed me why, but I don't understand why it was written as
   such.  The logic was

        if shell is standard shell, allow changing

   I changed it to

        if shell changing is allowed (per table.c) and it is a standard shell
             OR if uid=0, then allow changing."

   Makes sense to me.

- Update man page.
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.\" @(#)chpass.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
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.Dd December 30, 1993
.Dt CHPASS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm chpass, chfn, chsh, ypchpass, ypchfn, ypchsh
.Nd add or change user database information
.Sh SYNOPSIS
chpass
.Op Fl a Ar list
.Op Fl p Ar encpass
.Op Fl s Ar newshell
.Op user
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm chpass
program
allows editing of the user database information associated
with
.Ar user
or, by default, the current user.
The information is formatted and supplied to an editor for changes.
.Pp
Only the information that the user is allowed to change is displayed.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It Fl a
The super-user is allowed to directly supply a user database
entry, in the format specified by
.Xr passwd 5 ,
as an argument.
This argument must be a colon (``:'') separated list of all the
user database fields, although they may be empty.
.It Fl p
The super-user is allowed to directly supply an encrypted password field,
in the format used by
.Xr crypt 3 ,
as an argument.
.It Fl s
The
.Fl s
option attempts to change the user's shell to
.Ar newshell .
.El
.Pp
Possible display items are as follows:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width "Home Directory:" -compact -offset indent
.It Login:
user's login name
.It Password:
user's encrypted password
.It Uid:
user's login
.It Gid:
user's login group
.It Change:
password change time
.It Expire:
account expiration time
.It Class:
user's general classification
.It Home Directory:
user's home directory
.It Shell:
user's login shell
.It Full Name:
user's real name
.It Location:
user's normal location
.It Home Phone:
user's home phone
.It Office Phone:
user's office phone
.El
.Pp
The
.Ar login
field is the user name used to access the computer account.
.Pp
The
.Ar password
field contains the encrypted form of the user's password.
.Pp
The
.Ar uid
field is the number associated with the
.Ar login
field.
Both of these fields should be unique across the system (and often
across a group of systems) as they control file access.
.Pp
While it is possible to have multiple entries with identical login names
and/or identical user id's, it is usually a mistake to do so. Routines
that manipulate these files will often return only one of the multiple
entries, and that one by random selection.
.Pp
The
.Ar group
field is the group that the user will be placed in at login.
Since BSD supports multiple groups (see
.Xr groups 1 )
this field currently has little special meaning.
This field may be filled in with either a number or a group name (see
.Xr group 5 ) .
.Pp
The
.Ar change
field is the date by which the password must be changed.
.Pp
The
.Ar expire
field is the date on which the account expires.
.Pp
Both the
.Ar change
and
.Ar expire
fields should be entered in the form ``month day year'' where
.Ar month
is the month name (the first three characters are sufficient),
.Ar day
is the day of the month, and
.Ar year
is the year.
.Pp
The
.Ar class
field is currently unused. In the near future it will be a key to
a
.Xr termcap 5
style database of user attributes.
.Pp
The user's
.Ar home directory
is the full UNIX path name where the user
will be placed at login.
.Pp
The
.Ar shell
field is the command interpreter the user prefers.
If the
.Ar shell
field is empty, the Bourne shell,
.Pa /bin/sh ,
is assumed.
When altering a login shell, and not the super-user, the user
may not change from a non-standard shell or to a non-standard
shell.
Non-standard is defined as a shell not found in
.Pa /etc/shells .
.Pp
The last four fields are for storing the user's
.Ar full name , office location ,
and
.Ar home
and
.Ar work telephone
numbers.
.Pp
Once the information has been verified,
.Nm chpass
uses
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
to update the user database.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
The
.Xr vi 1
editor will be used unless the environment variable EDITOR is set to
an alternate editor.
When the editor terminates, the information is re-read and used to
update the user database itself.
Only the user, or the super-user, may edit the information associated
with the user.
.Sh NIS INTERACTION
.Nm Chpass
can also be used in conjunction with NIS, however some restrictions
apply.
Currently,
.Nm chpass
can only make changes to the NIS passwd maps through
.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8 ,
which normally only permits changes to a user's password, shell and GECOS
fields. Except when invoked by the super-user on the NIS master server,
.Nm chpass
(and, similarly,
.Xr passwd 1 )
can not use the
.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8
server to change other user information or
add new records to the NIS passwd maps.
Furthermore,
.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8
requires password authentication before it will make any
changes. The only user allowed to submit changes without supplying
a password is the super-user on the NIS master server; all other users,
including those with root privileges on NIS clients (and NIS slave
servers) must enter a password.
(The super-user on the NIS master is allowed to bypass these restrictions
largely for convenience: a user with root access
to the NIS master server already has the privileges required to make
updates to the NIS maps, but editing the map source files by hand can
be cumbersome.
.Pp
Note: these exceptions only apply when the NIS master server is a
FreeBSD system.)
.Pp
Consequently, except where noted, the following restrictions apply when
.Nm chpass
is used with NIS:
.Bl -enum -offset indent
.It
.Pa Only the shell and GECOS information may be changed.
All other
fields are restricted, even when
.Nm chpass
is invoked by the super-user.
While support for
changing other fields could be added, this would lead to
compatibility problems with other NIS-capable systems.
Even though the super-user may supply data for other fields
while editing an entry, the extra information (other than the
password -- see below) will be silently discarded.
.Pp
Exception: the super-user on the NIS master server is permitted to
change any field.
.Pp
.It
.Pa Password authentication is required.
.Nm Chpass
will prompt for the user's NIS password before effecting
any changes. If the password is invalid, all changes will be
discarded.
.Pp
Exception: the super-user on the NIS master server is allowed to
submit changes without supplying a password. (The super-user may
choose to turn off this feature using the
.Fl o
flag, described below.)
.It
.Pa Adding new records to the local
.Pa password database is discouraged.
.Nm Chpass
will allow the administrator to add new records to the
local password database while NIS is enabled, but this can lead to
some confusion since the new records are appended to the end of
the master password file, usually after the special NIS '+' entries.
The administrator should use
.Xr vipw 8
to modify the local password
file when NIS is running.
.Pp
The super-user on the NIS master server is permitted to add new records
to the NIS password maps, provided the
.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8
server has been started with the
.Fl a
flag to permitted additions (it refuses them by default).
.Nm Chpass
tries to update the local password database by default; to update the
NIS maps instead, invoke chpass with the
.Fl y
flag.
.It
.Pa Password changes are not permitted.
Users should use
.Xr passwd 1
or
.Xr yppasswd 1
to change their NIS passwords. The super-user is allowed to specify
a new password (even though the ``Password:'' field does not show
up in the editor template, the super-user may add it back by hand),
but even the super-user must supply the user's original password
otherwise
.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8
will refuse to update the NIS maps.
.Pp
Exception: the super-user on the NIS master server is permitted to
change a user's NIS password with
.Nm chpass .
.El
.Pp
There are also a few extra option flags that are available when
.Nm chpass
is compiled with NIS support:
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It Fl l
The
.Fl l
flag forces
.Nm chpass
to modify the local copy of a user's password
information in the even that a user exists in both
the local and NIS databases.
.It Fl y
This flag has the opposite effect of
.Fl l .
This flag is largely redundant since
.Nm chpass
operates on NIS entries by default if NIS is enabled.
.It Fl d Ar domain
Specify a particular NIS domain.
.Nm Chpass
uses the system domain name by default, as set by the
.Xr domainname 1
command. The
.Fl d
option can be used to override a default, or to specify a domain
when the system domain name is not set.
.It Fl h Ar host
Specify the name or address of an NIS server to query. Normally,
.Nm chpass
will communicate with the NIS master host specified in the
.Pa master.passwd
or
.Pa passwd
maps. On hosts that have not been configured as NIS clients, there is
no way for the program to determine this information unless the user
provides the hostname of a server. Note that the specified hostname need
not be that of the NIS master server; the name of any server, master or
slave, in a given NIS domain will do.
.Pp
When using the
.Fl d
option, the hostname defaults to ``localhost.'' The
.Fl h
option can be used in conjunction with the
.Fl d
option, in which case the user-specified hostname will override
the default.
.Pp
.It Fl o
Force the use of RPC-based updates when communicating with
.Xr rpc.yppasswdd 8
(``old-mode'').
When invoked by the super-user on the NIS master server,
.Nm chpass
allows unrestricted changes to the NIS passwd maps using dedicated,
non-RPC-based mechanism (in this case, a UNIX domain socket). The
.Fl o
flag can be used to force
.Nm chpass
to use the standard update mechanism instead. This option is provided
mainly for testing purposes.
.El
.Pp
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwd -compact
.It Pa /etc/master.passwd
The user database
.It Pa /etc/passwd
A Version 7 format password file
.It Pa /etc/chpass.XXXXXX
Temporary copy of the password file
.It Pa /etc/shells
The list of approved shells
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr login 1 ,
.Xr finger 1 ,
.Xr passwd 1 ,
.Xr getusershell 3 ,
.Xr passwd 5 ,
.Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
.Xr vipw 8
.Rs
.%A Robert Morris
and
.%A Ken Thompson
.%T "UNIX Password security"
.Re
.Sh NOTES
The
.Xr chfn 1 ,
.Xr chsh 1 ,
.Xr ypchpass 1 ,
.Xr ypchfn 1
and
.Xr ypchsh 1
commands are really only links to
.Nm chpass .
.Sh BUGS
User information should (and eventually will) be stored elsewhere.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 4.3 Reno .
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