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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sgiblab!sisters.cs.uoregon.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!tinguely From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Subject: Re: Rlogin password problems Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Message-ID: <CwwFrx.BnH@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 16:14:21 GMT References: <36bqqu$nj8@sundog.tiac.net> Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Organization: North Dakota State University Lines: 13 In article <36bqqu$nj8@sundog.tiac.net> mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern) writes: <deleted text> >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.