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1. Question about ftp and NIS (YP)

I am about to put up a patched version of ftpd on our system. I was testing
it on a workstation when I noticed that I could not log on to it using
my normal login. The workstation is diskless and uses NIS to access the
password file from the main system. I relinked ftpd with -lsun to get the
NIS aware versions of getpwent etc and all worked fine.

I then checked the distributed versions of ftpd to see if they were NIS aware
(this is Irix 3.3.2) and found that it was not. I then tried to ftp to a
SUN (SUNOS 4.1.1) that also shares the main password file by NIS with the
same result.

My question is this: Is there some special reason why SGI and SUN both
distribute their ftpds so that only people with entries in the local
/etc/passwd file can get access to the system via ftp? Or to put it another
way is there some good reason for me not to link my version -lsun.

Thanks, Russell.

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Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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