[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#651042: token manipulation error for NIS

[Harald Dunkel]

Hi Nicolas,

On 01/08/12 16:57, Nicolas François wrote:
> 
> I do not know NIS, but I do not think passwd should be used to change a
> password when NIS is in use.
> 

According to its own man page yppasswd(1) is deprecated.

> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/rpasswdd.html
> 

I do not see how this is relevant on Squeeze. pwdutils are
not included in Squeeze or Sid.

> Did passwd work in the past?

For Squeeze I cannot say.

> Do you know if passwd is intended to work in such case?
> 

I had expected passwd is based on pam, isn't it?


Regards

Harri