On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:36:53AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think dpkg-statoverride is not too bad in this case. I'll talk to > >the nis package maintainer and see if that's acceptable. If not, nis > >could install some flag file. The unix_chkpwd could start with root > >privs, chuck for this flag file with a hard coded path and drop to > >shadow if the flag file does not exist. > > The NIS package is in limbo right now. I'm the maintainer, but > I haven't had time to maintain it. I did send an ITO to this > list, but it appears noone wants to take it.
Uh? When? What? Who? I'm surely interested. We use intensively NIS here... -- Francesco P. Lovergine