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Author SHA1 Message Date
Philippe Charnier
fce2ca94cf Remove useless .Pp. Typo: gcos -> gecos (as spelled in passwd(5)). 2004-07-26 19:49:29 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6a3e8b0adc Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks. 2004-07-02 22:22:35 +00:00
Marc Fonvieille
ede93bc647 Typo fix.
PR:		docs/63677
Submitted by:	Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
MFC after:	1 week
2004-03-03 09:15:07 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
612956f67c Remove unused includes. Make it WARNS=6 friendly. Concerning bin/2442, make
a new function dup_shell() to replace ok_shell() and make it unconditionnally
strdup() its result to make the caller's code simplier. Change ok_shell() to
just return an integer value suitable for tests (it was used mainly for that
purpose). Do not use strdup() in the caller's code but rely on dup_shell()
that will do the job for us.

PR: bin/2442
2004-01-18 21:46:39 +00:00
Alexander Kabaev
8a50130bbb Do not compare unsigned int values with ULONG_MAX. The comparison is
always false on 64bit platforms and GCC 3.3.1 issues warning there.
2003-07-11 05:47:05 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
ebe901b4de Make GCC 3.3 happy with rcsid[], sccs[], and copyright[]. 2003-05-03 19:44:46 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
a4280091c3 Avoid clobbering the gecos field, as we intend to use the original later.
PR:		bin/50563
2003-04-09 18:18:42 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
8d32d8d50d Style cleanup. 2002-12-30 09:46:58 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
24c05aeeed Make WARNS=5 clean.
Tested on:	sparc64, Athlon[32]
2002-12-30 09:45:26 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
facc67676f mdoc(7) police: Deal with self-xrefs. 2002-12-24 13:41:48 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
014f5fe7f5 mdoc(7) police: more `The .Nm utility' + markup nit. 2002-12-23 15:08:01 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
9e655d620b Move the NOTES section to DESCRIPTION. And correct some documentation while
I'm here.

PR:		43756
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@attbi.com>
2002-12-20 01:17:18 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
6aa4e03fbe Don't try to dereference a NULL pw pointer. This would happen when
attempting to use chpass -a.
2002-10-29 12:45:32 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
e026a48c34 Consistently use FBSDID 2002-06-30 05:25:07 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
f1d0592537 Use libutil and libypclnt for all passwd manipulation and NIS needs.
Sponsored by:	DARPA, NAI Labs
2002-05-08 00:54:29 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
3898680cf7 Use `The .Nm utility' 2002-04-19 23:44:58 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
22b3e77111 Rename a couple of local variables to avoid warnings.
Sponsored by:	DARPA, NAI Labs
2002-04-06 19:04:22 +00:00
David Malone
4d09bd65bd Fix vendor ID.
Make usage message match the man page. (Missing -o, -h doesn't depend on -d).

PR:		36470
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
MFC after:	1 week
2002-03-30 14:32:07 +00:00
David Malone
afa6d859f0 Minor post warns stuff.
1) Fix up vendor IDs for files I'm touching and put FBSDID in the right place.
2) Cast return value of snprintf to size_t rather than casting sizeof() to
   an int, 'cos we know snprintf returns a non-genative number.
3) Avoid 'char *blank = "";' by just strduping. This could be bad sometimes,
   but all these variables usually point at malloced memory so this makes
   them always point at malloced memory.
2002-03-30 13:44:45 +00:00
Mark Murray
5ea7337834 Fix warns, ANSIfy, use __FBSDID(), sort headers. 2002-03-24 10:21:22 +00:00
Crist J. Clark
61c26786cf Fix a style(9) error. Put the vendor version control string back in.
I nuked it when I added the $FreeBSD$ tag.
2002-03-24 01:41:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
f1bb2cd2aa remove __P 2002-03-22 01:22:50 +00:00
Crist J. Clark
92b19a5754 Fix a bug that prevents "00" being used as a valid year. Why bother in
2002? It is a bug. Might as well close the PR.

PR:		misc/14511
Submitted by:	Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>
MFC after:	3 days
2002-03-18 09:49:18 +00:00
Crist J. Clark
8c44e77923 It was possible for an unprivileged user to tie up the password
information (no one else can vipw(8), chpass(1), or even passwd(1)),
either on purpose or by accident, until an administrator manually
intervened. Instead, do not lock the master.passwd file while a user
is editing his information. But once we go to write the new
information, check that the modified user's information has not
changed in the password database since we started. Abort the changes
if it has.

Add a $FreeBSD$ to pw_copy.h.

PR:		i386/35816
Obtained from:	NetBSD
MFC after:	1 week
2002-03-18 02:22:53 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
dc584ddbc5 ANSIfy and remove some dead code.
Sponsored by:	DARPA, NAI Labs
2002-02-06 15:26:07 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
ed4d1c46a2 Apply the following mechanical transformations in preparation for
ansification and constification:

    s{\s+__P\((\(.*?\))\)}{$1}g;
    s{\(\s+}{\(}g;
    s{\s+\)}{\)}g;
    s{\s+,}{,}g;
    s{(\s+)(for|if|switch|while)\(}{$1$2 \(}g;
    s{return ([^\(].*?);}{return ($1);}g;
    s{([\w\)])([!=+/\*-]?=)([\w\(+-])}{$1 $2 $3}g;
    s{\s+$}{\n};g

Also add $FreeBSD$ where needed.

MFC after:	1 week
2002-02-06 13:30:31 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
8858373f83 The clnt_create(KEYSERVSOCK, CRYPT_PROG, CRYPT_VERS, "unix") hacks
were removed and replaced them with clnt_tp_create, now the af_local
support is fixed.

I also removed the hack how rpcinfo contacted rpcbind, now we can
relay on clnt_tp_create create the client-handle for us.  Only
rpcbind itself needs a hardcoded socket-path.

Submitted by: mbr

Also add $FreeBSD
2002-02-05 19:26:04 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
cda2a9b2f0 Set BINOWN=root explicitly for setuid root binaries.
This is not "useless", as one may have non-default
setting for BINOWN in make.conf, and we still want
these to be installed setuid root in this case.
2001-09-13 06:48:18 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
f328d583a2 Use CFLAGS, not COPTS, in the Makefile. bsd.prog.mk conveniently adds
COPTS towards the end of final CFLAGS so that it can be used to
override Makefile and other defaults.  Using it in Makefiles risks
having options set using it clobbered when somebody uses it on the
command line.

Approved by:	bde
2001-09-05 20:10:59 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
753d686d34 mdoc(7) police: s/BSD/.Bx/ where appropriate. 2001-08-14 10:01:54 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
42abf713c9 can not -> cannot 2001-08-08 18:32:06 +00:00
Mike Barcroft
f458f48b02 Prevent chpass(1) from writing -1 in the UID or GID fields
in the password file by properly casting integers.

PR:		27757
Reviewed by:	des
Approved by:	des
MFC after:	4 days
2001-07-26 23:27:10 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
f247324df7 Remove whitespace at EOL. 2001-07-15 08:06:20 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
70d51341bf mdoc(7) police: remove extraneous .Pp before and/or after .Sh. 2001-07-09 09:54:33 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
9b88faecd3 Prepare for mdoc(7)NG. 2000-12-19 16:00:12 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
89368610f8 Use correct macro for path name
PR:		docs/13218
2000-11-22 17:53:17 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
8fe908ef0c mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 19:21:22 +00:00
Jacques Vidrine
248aee623c Add nsswitch support. By creating an /etc/nsswitch.conf file, you can
configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be
looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod.

= Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)).

= A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback
  functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)).

= The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch:
    . getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid
    . getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid
    . getusershell
    . getaddrinfo
    . gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr
    . getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr
    . getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr

= host.conf has been removed from src/etc.  rc.network has been modified
  to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time.  In addition, if
  there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
  time from the former.

Obtained from:	NetBSD
2000-09-06 18:16:48 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
b9efeafc84 Use an MD5 checksum to test for file changes; the previous method
of using file mtimes could result in chpasss(1) erroneously
detecting that no changes were made for non-interactive edits.

PR:		4238
Reported by:	Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@noc.dfn.de>
Submitted by:	Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>
2000-04-12 08:49:14 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
4e86fcacf6 Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks. 2000-03-02 14:54:02 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
87faa07bec Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.
2000-03-01 12:20:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
a83c5014b1 Extra sanity checks in information from file edited by user. This
precludes using chfn, et al, to generate a divot in /etc.

Submitted by: Lukasz Luzar
Forgotten about for months by: imp
1999-12-21 19:30:09 +00:00
Peter Wemm
6e2578e4c4 Revert the libcrypt/libmd stuff back to how it was. This should not have
happened as it was working around problems elsewhere (ie: binutils/ld
not doing the right thing according to the ELF design).  libcrypt has
been adjusted to not need the runtime -lmd.  It's still not quite right
(ld is supposed to work damnit) but at least it doesn't impact all the
users of libcrypt in Marcel's cross-build model.
1999-12-18 13:55:17 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
2e15fcdf53 Document -e flag.
PR:		docs/14936
Submitted by:	Stephen J. Roznowski <sjr@home.com>
1999-12-17 14:43:33 +00:00
Marcel Moolenaar
7c99ddf2cc Add libmd (or move it after libcrypt). We don't want the linker to be
smart because it will definitely get it wrong. This popped up during
cross-linking.
1999-12-16 10:55:45 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
9a602acc36 Replace the -q option to pwd_mkdb with a test for PW_SCAN_BIG_IDS in
the environment.  This allows big ID warnings to be suppressed for
vipw and chpass as well.

Since the environment variable test is only performed for callers
of pw_scan() that do not set pw_big_ids_warning, the test can still
be overriden.  Currently, chpass and pwd_mkdb are the only users
of pw_scan() and neither of them overrides the environment variable
test.
1999-12-02 16:39:15 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
6414fabf51 mdoc(7)'fy
Mostly submitted by: "Philippe Charnier" <charnier@xp11.frmug.org>
1999-11-18 16:04:53 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
e1e5fdf6d4 mdoc(7)'fy 1999-10-30 15:12:25 +00:00
Andrew Gallatin
8f5c81c41a fix a serious bug where, on alpha, due to a an int/long type mismatch,
the uid arg to use_yp() was getting clobbered by the call to my_yp_match().
This led to a problem where a NIS user could edit root's passwd information.
1999-10-20 15:20:00 +00:00
Peter Wemm
0c2b3c31aa Unifdef -DPASSWD_IGNORE_COMMENTS. This wasn't really optional and
we have enough pseudo-options already.
1999-09-06 17:30:03 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Chris Costello
f437b38cf7 Fix a bunch of broken cross-references 1999-08-18 05:55:22 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
e4268c5913 Allow comments and blank lines as advertised in passwd(5).
PR:	12828
Submitted by:	Yasuhiro Fukuma <yasuf@big.or.jp>
1999-07-29 16:30:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
96846ff646 More egcs warning fixes:
o main returns int not void
	o use return 0 at end of main when needed
	o use braces to avoid potentially ambiguous else
	o don't default to type int
	o #ifdef 0 -> #if 0

Reviewed by: obrien and chuckr
1999-04-25 22:37:58 +00:00
Bill Paul
f8821e4aa3 Close PR #10264. Don't bail directly out of passwd/chpass in my_yp_match().
Instead, treat the inability to retrieve a record from the server as a
match failure and let things take its course.

Part of the problem here is that NIS _is_ turned on, however the master
server is actually not an NIS server: it's an NIS+ server. And the client
is bound to an NIS+ replica server that's running in YP compat mode.
The code which tries to figure out of the user is local or NIS gets
confused by this.
1999-03-01 16:11:13 +00:00
Guy Helmer
a041dfad25 Change the prompt for the office location field from "Location:"
to "Office Location:" to disambiguate what is expected.  Add a note
to the man page to indicate that the office location and office phone
fields are concatenated and printed with the heading "Office:" by
finger(1).  Swap the order of the home and office phone fields in the
man page to match the order of the fields in the editor.

If any programs interact with chpass(1) and expect "Location:" instead
of "Office Location:" as the prompt, either this change will have to be
reverted or the other programs will have to be changed.

PR:		docs/7533
1999-02-23 02:41:26 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
ad5ebf3fba Ignore errors from chflags. This makes it possible to make installworld
with DESTDIR set to an NFS-mounted file system.
1999-02-14 13:56:15 +00:00
Daniel O'Callaghan
ea5cc207d2 Allow two digit years 1969-2068 1999-01-18 22:15:09 +00:00
Bruce Evans
b5d2ebcc28 Fixed disordering of cross references in previous commit. 1998-12-13 15:32:26 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
4bb8e546c1 Add reference to login.conf(5) 1998-12-13 02:48:43 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
f4b12e0a08 PR: docs/9045
Update chpass(1) manual page.  Change the definition of the class
    field and also reorganize the field list to match that of the
    /etc/master.passwd file, to avoid confusion.
1998-12-13 02:47:00 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
fa146c5335 Tweaks to allow compiling -Wall (mostly adding "const" to char rcsid[]). 1998-12-06 22:58:23 +00:00
Bruce Evans
06cc787d3e Fixed printf format errors. Assume that uid_t's are representable as
unsigned longs.
1998-10-17 14:08:12 +00:00
Bruce Evans
fa63310f99 Fixed printf format errors. Assume that time_t's are representable as
longs.
1998-10-17 14:06:20 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
be0cde6f10 Remove useless `BINOWN=root' now that it is the default. 1998-09-19 22:42:06 +00:00
Mark Murray
e29c2a4f89 Bump up the E_SHELL constant after an extra field was added, thus making
this refer to the wrong data.
Submitted by:	axl@iafrica.com (Sheldon Hearn)
1998-09-03 17:32:22 +00:00
Peter Hawkins
0914b0d220 Submitted by: Peter Hawkins <thepish@freebsd.org>
Document last mod (extended gcos)
1998-08-14 03:47:38 +00:00
Peter Hawkins
19ae8d1e56 Submitted by: Peter Hawkins <thepish@FreeBSD.org>
Add functionality for support for more than 4 subfields within gcos. chsh,
chpass etc did not parse beyond the 4th field previously and so truncated
gcos on updating the database.
1998-08-14 03:18:32 +00:00
Steve Price
a05ac887c5 Correct the description of the last four fields.
PR:		6926
Submitted by:	Josh Gilliam <josh@quick.net>
1998-06-13 19:14:14 +00:00
Bruce Evans
22450dd8c1 Fixed `make -j9' by putting generated headers in ${SRCS}. Removed bogus
dependencies of generated .c files on generated headers (these made
`make -JN' work provided `depend' was made first).  Sorted sources lists.
1998-04-26 16:31:14 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
522571b32e Add rcsid. Correct -Wall warning. 1998-03-23 07:41:49 +00:00
Bruce Evans
9b67968db9 Removed extra (non-trailing) arg in a call to warnx(). 1997-12-18 15:27:43 +00:00
Mark Murray
f714a88adc Quieten -Wall. 1997-09-28 08:46:12 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
dab372ae6e Add manpage links ypchpass.1, ypchfn.1, ypchsh.1 1997-09-13 12:21:25 +00:00
Bill Paul
d4a27db19e Modify passwd and chpass to use new AF_LOCAL RPC interface instead of
old kludged-up 'yppasswd_comm' support.
1997-07-29 15:45:36 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
9fc081a49e Free a malloc'ed variable before exiting. Compute line number when parsing
input file, it helps finding errors.
Obtained from: OpenBSD.
1997-06-25 06:59:55 +00:00
Bill Paul
e49249921c Fix for PR #3141: check for NULL before strdup()ing pw->pw_class.
(I'm not sure why this happens, though I suspect it may be because
the server is configured with only passwd maps instead of both passwd
and master.passwd maps. This is allowed, but I think in this case
pw_class is left NULL, hence the problem.)

Also applied similar patch to chpass/pw_yp.c just for paranoia's sake.
1997-03-29 20:29:12 +00:00
Warner Losh
1c8af87873 compare return value from getopt against -1 rather than EOF, per the final
posix standard on the topic.
1997-03-29 04:34:07 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
bac06c08b7 If an administrator somehow manages to break the hardlinks
on chpass & passwd and turn the links into individual files
with the schg flag set, make install will fail to install all
of the proper links.

Fixed by removing the schg flag on all of the links before installing.

Closes PR# 2040.

Submitted by:	 Ph. Charnier <charnier@xp11.frmug.org>
1997-02-26 05:31:52 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c115df18cd Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$ 1997-02-22 19:58:13 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
da1ff3cb8a Sort cross references. 1997-01-15 23:25:55 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
1130b656e5 Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore.  This update would have been
insane otherwise.
1997-01-14 07:20:47 +00:00
Peter Wemm
0587e3a417 pw_scan() was being used to convert a string into a struct passwd, with
an auto stack variable that was about to disappear.  It broke with some
nis passwd changes because of a gethostbyname() call that uses a fair bit
of stack..  This was a timebomb waiting to go off at any time and could
have been causing subtle corruption for a while.

AARGH!!

This is HIGHLY reccomended for 2.2 and presumably 2.1.6
1996-11-15 17:36:20 +00:00
Bill Paul
d7f248ea9f Add a flag to allow the 'use NIS or local?' logic to tell when NIS is
enabled in /etc/master.passwd & friends. This allows the 'USER_YP_AND_LOCAL'
case to make a more sensible guess (if NIS is enabled, default to NIS,
otherwise default to local -- this is better than defaulting to NIS
all the time).
1996-10-23 14:43:39 +00:00
Bill Paul
fac16cb516 *blush* Whoops: got the format strings wrong. 1996-10-22 03:43:34 +00:00
Bill Paul
900520ed02 Part 2 of fix for PR #1519. The problem here is similar to what
was going on in pwd_mkdb, except here we also have to deal with
the pw_change and pw_expire fields.
1996-10-22 03:27:12 +00:00
Bill Paul
eb66ca7b64 Modify the 'couldn't create udp handle' message so it tell you
the name of the host that couldn't be connected to. This will hopefully
make it easier to diagnose problems with certain NIS configuration
problems.
1996-10-22 00:41:55 +00:00
Peter Wemm
366982a550 Add new option to chpass: -e "expire" ; change the account expire time
from a script as if it was done in the interactive editor.

When reassembling the gecos string, trim any excess trailing commas, they
look ugly in the passwd file. :-)

Have a simple Makefile tweak to prevent mortal users from changing their
fullname.  As ISP's we have seem some real bizzare stuff here..

When decoding the change/expire string, allow the month number as a
synonym for the name of the month.. (ie: 1 as well as Jan or January)
Note that using numbers means there's a chance that you can get bitten
if you're not used to the American DD-MM-YY order.
1996-08-12 14:45:26 +00:00
Guido van Rooij
72383443f2 Move setting of username to the correcft place; also initialize it.
Reviewed by:	peter@freebsd.org
1996-07-14 16:42:33 +00:00
Guido van Rooij
79a1b8d9e2 Implement incremental passwd database updates. This is done by ading a '-u'
option to pwd_mkdb and adding this option to utilities invoking it.
Further, the filling of both the secure and insecure databases has been
merged into one loop giving also a performance improvemnet.
Note that I did *not* change the adduser command. I don't read perl
(it is a write only language anyway).
The change will drastically improve performance for passwd and
friends with large passwd files. Vipw's performance won't change.
In order to do that some kind of diff should be made between the
old and new master.passwd and depending the amount of changes, an
incremental or complete update of the databases should be agreed
upon.
1996-07-01 19:38:50 +00:00
Bill Paul
8e92f56a01 Add missing semicolon so that this module compiles whithout -DYP.
Submitted (via Usenet) by: Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>
1996-06-15 16:17:42 +00:00
Bill Paul
a7aa11b1a0 Fix the -l flag. For some reason I can't fathom, I left in some code
that would cause it to fail if anyone but the superuser tried to use it.

Also fix a couple of harmless typos since I'm in the area.
1996-05-25 01:05:17 +00:00
Bill Paul
5741059082 In use_yp(), call _yp_check() to make ultra, super-duper sure that NIS
is available before trying to go hunting for a domain name. This fixes
the following problem: you have +::::::::: in /etc/master.passwd but
NIS isn't running (no ypbind, no domain name set) -- passwd and chpass
will still try to change an NIS password instead of the local one.
1996-05-07 21:05:12 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
d33c4953e7 Print some warnings if root invokes chpass and sets the
shell to one of the following:

- a non-existent file
- a non-regular file
- a file without any execute bits set

The shell is still set to whatever they entered even if the above
conditions exist (hey, it is the super user doing this after all :-),
but this might give the admin. some warning that they are about to screw
themselves and give them a chance to fix it before it is too late.

Inspired by: some new FreeBSD user on USENET who set his root shell
  to a shell that doesn't exist and now can't gain access to root (don't
  worry, I sent him some mail on how to recover from this).
1996-04-11 05:30:18 +00:00
Bill Paul
c3d77d3003 Fix small bug in get_yp_master(): this function is used to look for
a master server and initialize the suser_override flag, but in a non-NIS
environment is should be smart enough to just leave the flag cleared
and return (unless forced with a command-line argument like -y).
Otherwise, it will return an NIS-related error even if NIS isn't
turned on.

Pointed out by: ache
1996-03-04 15:34:43 +00:00
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.
1996-02-23 16:08:59 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
c8ead7a6cf Fix typo in xref in NOTES section. 1996-02-14 22:26:04 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
049ceb634f Move the YP initialization earlier, so it's done before the evaluation
of -p/-s/-a related cruft.

Closes PR # misc/933 "chpass -s <shell>" does not work
1996-01-06 15:03:02 +00:00
Andreas Schulz
98c88647d9 Correct a typo :-). 1995-09-02 19:25:40 +00:00
Bill Paul
9219423651 Make use_yp() smarter about figuring out whether a user is local or
NIS (or both, or neither). Also add support for -l and -y flags to
force behavior to local or NIS. use_yp() also goes out of its way to
retrieve the correct password database information (local or NIS)
depending on what the situation since getpwent() & co. can't
necessarily be trusted in some cases.

Also document new flags in man page.
1995-09-02 03:56:21 +00:00