On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Rick Goyette wrote:

> That works nicely. One thing: This assumes that all passwords are
> handled through the NIS server. What if a system, in addition to
> allowing NIS users, also had a few local accounts. Is there a way
> for pam to distinguish between the two, and not use nis to change the
> password for a local account?

Old passwd from redhat (maybe that's the one you use) had a nice
option -N just for this purpose. Read passwd man page for details.

Jan

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