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From: Sergio Lenzi <lenzi@cwbtwo.bsi.com.br>
To: Robert Shady <rls@kilroy.id.net>
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Subject: Re: Prob's w/YP Stuff
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Ref: change yp password for users, asks for the old passwd...


Roberts is right.

I had kind of the same problem here at bsi.
And another problem that you will face too ->passwords generated by
the yppasswd contains invalid characters (control) and when yppasswdd
tries to update the password it invalidates the password.

Solution:
1) Modify the program yp_passwd.c at /usr/src/usr.bin/passwd
	to generate crypt the same way as local_passwd.c
2) Modify update.c in the /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/yppasswdd
	to not check the old password if it came from uid=0.

compile those programs * install.


Sergio de Almeida Lenzi.