Hello:
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> I have a couple of interesting NIS questions which I could not resolve
> through the HOWTO docs.
> 1. Can a machine be client to multiple NIS domains?
AFAIK, no!
> 2. Can you imagine a situation when it would be necessary?
No.
> 2. Is the behaviour of passwd command itself affected - by the presence of
> a running NIS client [ypbind] - that it would ask for verification
> through NIS database, if it is present?
The password changing tool "passwd" does not detect the presence of the
NIS environment, its PAM which does the magic using NIS RPC for the
password changing.
passwd -> PAM -> NIS
See docs for the "pam_unix" PAM module.
>How exactly is this affected? Is the change permanent? [passwd seems to
>behave like yppasswd].
PAM makes the password changing transparent in an NIS domain for
"passwd" (or any other app which goes thru PAM)
Oh, I don't actively use NIS so I might be wrong here!
-- Shanu
BTW: In case you plan to deploy NIS in your network, i strongly recommend
against NIS. Use LDAP for providing single point authentication instead.
LDAP is secure, robust and highly scalable.
--
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dark blur I see a big light blur.
Luke Skywalker:
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Han Solo:
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