> he can change passwords on the server at will.
>From the rpc.yppasswdd manpage:
The FreeBSD version of rpc.yppasswdd also allows the super-user on the
NIS master server to perform more sophisticated updates on the NIS passwd
maps. The super-user can modify any field in any user's master.passwd
entry in any domain, and can do so without knowing the user's existing
NIS password (when the server receives a request from the super-user, the
password authentication check is bypassed). Furthermore, if the server is
invoked with the -a flag, the super-user can even add new entries to the
maps using ypchpass(1). Again, this only applies to the super-user on
the NIS master server: none of these special functions can be performed
over the network.
The rpc.yppasswdd utility can only be run on a machine that is an NIS
master server.
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