Bug#47467: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#47467: #47467 to be closed by PAMification of chfn and chsh?

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 07:57:25AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> In http://bugs.debian.org/47467, the bug submitter requests that chfn
> and chsh allow working on NIS accounts.
> 
> As far as I understand, this should *now* be possible because these
> utilities are PAMified. Could you confirm (I know you're using a
> NIS setup, so this should be easy to test for you) ?

I can confirm that PAM auth works fine now, but as for
changing anything on NIS server, it's IMHO impossible
with current libc (I may be wrong) -- for this there
are yppasswd, ypchsh and ypchfn tools...

BTW, NIS is broken in libc6/netgroup handling now --
see bug #328440.

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