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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: SERIOUS BUG: SunOS' YP/NIS password daemon
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- References: <RATINOX.92Dec30162148@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:14:08 GMT
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- In <RATINOX.92Dec30162148@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> Gone with the Lemming <ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu> writes:
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- >Specifically, if an existing password contains colons (":"), then the RPC
- >calls from yppasswd to yppasswdd (on the YP/NIS server), fails when you
- >attempt to change a password.
-
- This is fixed in the following patch:
-
- Patch-ID# 100564-03
- Keywords: C2 Jumbo rpc.yppasswdd rpc.pwdauthd
- Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.2, 4.1.3: C2 Jumbo patch
- Date: 30/Sept/92
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- SunOS release: 4.1.2, 4.1.3
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- Unbundled Product:
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- Unbundled Release:
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- Topic: C2 Jumbo patch
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-
- >A bug report has been sent to Sun, and should show up in the next bug
- >report book.
-
- bug 1039587:
- rpc.yppasswdd does not accept ":" characters
- as a valid passwd character when changing an existent passwd entry.
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- -Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
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