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

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Alexander Gattin (xrgtn at yandex.ru):
> 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...


Well, the bug log seems to say the contrary....as long as chsh and
chfn are properly PAMified, they should be able to act on NIS. This
already seems to be possible for passwd.

I don't want to know about the details, I just want to know whether
this should still be our problem about the proper PAMification of chsh
and chfn.....