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... BTW, NIS is broken in libc6/netgroup handling now -- see bug #328440. -- WBR, xrgtn
