Re: HEADS UP: rpc.yppasswdd working again

> he can change passwords on the server at will.

>From the rpc.yppasswdd manpage:

     The FreeBSD version of rpc.yppasswdd also allows the super-user on the
     NIS master server to perform more sophisticated updates on the NIS passwd
     maps.  The super-user can modify any field in any user's master.passwd
     entry in any domain, and can do so without knowing the user's existing
     NIS password (when the server receives a request from the super-user, the
     password authentication check is bypassed). Furthermore, if the server is
     invoked with the -a flag, the super-user can even add new entries to the
     maps using ypchpass(1).  Again, this only applies to the super-user on
     the NIS master server: none of these special functions can be performed
     over the network.

     The rpc.yppasswdd utility can only be run on a machine that is an NIS
     master server.