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From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Subject: Re: Rlogin password problems
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In article <36bqqu$nj8@sundog.tiac.net> mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern) writes:
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>I want them to be able to change
>their passwords on that system. What I was originally thinking of was to have
>a host with a full master.passwd file that they could telnet to and change
>their passwords to have it propigate, but I'm not sure exactly how to implement
>it. Any ideas are welcome.

One possible solution, you could rdist(1) the password files around to the 10 hosts.
In the past there were security holes in rdist(1). At least you do not have to
worry about the chsh(1) and chfn(1) commands.

--mark.