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From: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Rlogin password problems
Date: 28 Sep 1994 13:24:46 GMT
Organization: B.E.T.A. Mountain, Framingham, MA
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Ok. Heres another winner for those who like to think. I am currently setting
up a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 network (about a dozen machines). Some of them, the
modem-handlers, will have a user login, and their shell will be (effectively)
a rlogin to one of the user hosts. Now, the problem that I have is that
they'll never stay on the modem hosts, yet, 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.
	-brian