Umm- it's never supposed to have been with a '*' in it for this YP implementation, I believe. Fixing the security check would be a good thing. Going to pam/nsswitch.conf would be even better.
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Scott Michel wrote: > I didn't see anything along these lines the the archive, so > here goes... (something different to the other threads running > these days.) > > In 3.3.1 and 4.0-current, if one puts the following in /etc/passwd > to enable NIS logins: > > +:*::::: > > then logins (console or ssh) of ordinary users don't work. After > gdb-ing ssh, I found that getpwnam() consistently returns "*" as > the user's password. > > Removing the "*" makes things work again, but the security check > wails about a user w/o a password. > > Question: Was this intentional behavior or should I submit a pr with > a patch? > > > -scooter > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
