Subject: Bug#3495: doesn't respect nis/yp

From: Chris Fearnley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:51:17 -0400 (EDT)

[email-masked] wrote:'
>
>Package: npasswd_boulder
>Version: 1.2.2-1-
>Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
>Kernel etc: Linux ira 2.0.0 #4 Mon Jul 1 18:05:08 MET DST 1996 i586
>Reporter: repair 0.1
>
>If i call passwd on a host acting as a nis client, npasswd
>doesn't seem to respect the nis entry in /etc/passwd.

I debianized npasswd so that dumb passwds would be refused on a clients
machine.  The currect passwd package rejects dumb passwds too.  So I
consider npasswd obsolete.  If you feel the package is worthwhile,
please take over maintenance of it.  The "_" should be removed from the
name if a new version is made.  Since this is going to the bug
tracking system, I will note that Marek has found security weaknesses
in the npasswd_boulder package on sunsite.  Since that is where I
grabbed the sources, it is probable that the Debian package has
inherited those weaknesses.  Since I no longer use npasswd myself, I
haven't bothered to investigate these conscerns.

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From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[email-masked]>
Date: 02 Jul 1996 23:16:47 -0700

What the hey, I certainly don't respect nis/yp...

Darren