pam_unix does not fully honor the "nis" flag

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Mon Aug 29 08:21:31 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:29 -0400, Aaron Hope wrote:
> The pam_unix module attempts to resolve users via NIS, regardless of
> whether the "nis" flag is set.  When the system has a working NIS setup
> not enabled in /etc/nsswitch.conf, e.g. during an LDAP migration,
> password changes are reported as successful, but no action is taken.  
> 
> Fix attached.

Thanks for the patch, it is correct. I will apply it.

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Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>




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