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.
after I installed the last SNAP :). Because of the way the 'use NIS
or local?' logic is set up here, it was possible to force the use
of the NIS password changer even though the specified user didn't exist
in NIS (i.e. # passwd foo, where foo is a local-only user). In this
case, we fall intp yp_passwd() without the corresponding yp_password
structure being filled in, which leads to an NULL pointer dereference.
Also fixed the logic like I just did with chpass so that if the user
is both in NIS and the local password database, the program makes a
more sensible guess as to which one to use (if NIS is turned on in
/etc/master.passwd, then use NIS, else default to local).
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.
Changing a local passwd will now keep the encryption type that
was originally used to encrypt the password, so folks adding DES
to their systems will not be irritated/confused by having MD5'ed
passwords in their master.passwd. Coming later is an option to
allow the user to choose the encryption type.
2) Fix a bunch of compiler warnings announced by turning on -Wall.
I did not get them all, that will come a bit later.
correctly whether a user is local or NIS (or both, or neither). If you
have a user that exists locally but not in NIS, passwd(1) could get
confused and try to submit the password change to NIS. (Fortunately,
yppasswdd is smart enough to spot the error and reject the change.)
Bug reported by: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu>
that it can't contact an NIS server when asked to change the password
of an invalid user. It should say 'unknown user' instead.
The fix is to check for the _PW_KEYYPENABLED flag in the password
database and only roll over into the yppasswd stuff if the flag
is enabled (this means passwd will not behave as yppasswd if
there are no +::::::::: entries in /etc/master.passwd). If
NIS is enabled but the user says 'passwd -l foouser' where
foouser exists in the NIS maps, but not in /etc/master.passwd,
we also say 'unknown user.' This is so we don't outsmart ourselves:
specifying the -l flag restricts passwd to the local password database
even if NIS is enabled.
This change should probably be merged into 2.1.
This is the first round of changes to incorporate YP server functionality
into FreeBSD. This particular change allows passwd to change either the
local or NIS password, as well as the NIS GECOS and shell information.
Essentially, I've taken passwd(1) and yppasswd from the yppasswd-0.5
distribution (which is part of the NYS project -- a project to provide
a GNU GPL'ed suite of NIS tools) and rammed them into each other
at high speed. I've tried my best to make this co-exist with the
Kerberos stuff, but since I don't run Kerberos I don't have an easy
way to verify that it all works. If you choose any Kerberos flags
then the YP checks should be bypassed, but that may not be enough.
I'll modify it some more if it turns out I broke something. For now,
support for localand NIS passwords is pretty solid:
- If you simply type 'passwd,' the program checks to see if you exist
in the local pwd.db database. If not, you get bounced to YP.
- If you try to force local functionality with the -l flag and you
don't exist locally, you get an error.
The -y flag can be used to force YP functionality. -f and -s let you
change your full name and shell (respectively). -f *and* -s let you
change all of your 'account information.'
ypchfn, ypchsh, yppasswd and ypchpass are all links to passwd.
