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Subject: rootless NIS passwd maps
From: munch munch (tandooriNYM.ALIAS.NET)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 19:20:11 CDT

If in a NIS passwd map you do not want the root account appearing
you can put the mortal users in the file /var/yp/src/passwd or some
such and give yppasswd args to make it use that.

Having done that, what happens with the admintool,sam,useradd,smit
sort of stuff that adds users ? These really should be trained to
add the users to the new file and not /etc/passwd. Does anyone do
this and how ?

A dirty fix in the ypmake or Makefile would sort of do it by extracting
selected lines from /etc/passwd as it runs. But there's likely to
be a better idea.

Or do people want to suggest multi-system user managers other than NIS ?