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- From: df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: perl COPS, one line patch -- apply, or it won't work...
- Message-ID: <27560@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jun 91 05:33:39 GMT
-
-
- With a brilliance seldom seen outside the net, I forgot to take
- out my test password file, and comment out a critical line in the
- configuration file, "cops.cf". There is a line, 26, I think, that
- looks like this:
-
- $GET_PASSWD = '/bin/cat passwd';
-
- It should be either commented out, or deleted, if you don't want
- it there. You will get bogus results, unless you do (unless you
- happen to copy your own password file in the directory you're
- running cops from.) The purpose of this is to check alternate password
- files, whether from other machines, shadow password files, or whatever.
- For instance, as a poor example, if you use NIS/yellow pages, you could
- say:
-
- $GET_PASSWD = 'ypcat passwd';
-
- And all the password stuff would work on your yp database instead
- of the normal one in /etc/passwd. This is a poor example, because
- the system automatically detects yellow pages, and does this anyway.
- But hopefully, you get the idea. Anyway, just comment out that
- line, or apply this patch that will do it for you.
-
- --dan
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- *** cops.cf.old Sun Jun 23 01:16:47 1991
- --- cops.cf Sun Jun 23 01:22:56 1991
- ***************
- *** 23,29 ****
- # and 'ypcat passwd' stuff. Note that this will pass the info to the
- # password caching program -- it expects a file with *exactly* the same
- # fields and such as the normal password file, ok?
- ! $GET_PASSWD = '/bin/cat passwd';
-
- ###############################################################
- # many things call &chk_strings (including {cron,misc,rc,root}.chk)
- --- 23,29 ----
- # and 'ypcat passwd' stuff. Note that this will pass the info to the
- # password caching program -- it expects a file with *exactly* the same
- # fields and such as the normal password file, ok?
- ! # $GET_PASSWD = '/bin/cat passwd';
-
- ###############################################################
- # many things call &chk_strings (including {cron,misc,rc,root}.chk)
-