Password Strength and Aging checking w/NIS

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ted Beaton wrote:

> Does anyone know how to get NIS to use pam for password strength 
> checking and password aging?  All I've been able to get it to do is use 
> pam for authentication/login.

There is a 'nis' option to pam_unix.so, so you can just use pam on
clients as usual, just tell pam_unix in password section to do the
change via NIS.

Jan
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