YPPASSWDD(5) File Formats and Configurations YPPASSWDD(5)
NAME
yppasswdd - configuration file for rpc.yppasswdd (NIS password
daemon)
SYNOPSIS
/etc/default/yppasswddDESCRIPTION
The
yppasswdd file contains a parameter that modifies the behavior of
the
rpc.yppasswdd(8) daemon.
The
yppasswdd file contains a single parameter:
#check_restricted_shell_name=1
By default in the current release, this line in
yppasswdd is
commented out. If you uncomment the line, when a user attempts to
change his default shell using
`passwd -r nis -e` (see
passwd(1)),
the
rpc.yppasswdd daemon checks whether the name of the user's
current shell begins with an 'r'.
rpc.yppasswdd considers any shell
whose name begins with an 'r' (for example,
rcsh) to be a restricted
shell. If a user's shell does begin with 'r', his attempt to change
from the default shell will fail.
If the line in the
yppasswdd file is commented out (the default), the
rpc.yppasswdd daemon does not perform the restricted shell check.
The
yppasswdd file is editable only by root or a member of the sys
group.
FILES
/etc/default/yppasswdd configuration file for
rpc.yppasswdd daemon
SEE ALSO
rpc.yppasswdd(8) November 8, 2001 YPPASSWDD(5)