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matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes:

>Has anyone else written a replacement Password changing module for
>Preferences (for NeXTstep 2.2 and/or 3.0) that changes the user's NIS
>password a la yppasswd instead of their NetInfo password?

>Right now I'm thinking of making a module (at least 3.0 has the API) that
>does nothing but subprocess out to yppasswd since you can't just say
>yppasword userid oldpassword newpassword.  [At least, I HOPE you can't.]

I hacked up a perl script written by a guy in Norway so that it does
this.  Then, I hade one of our DevGuys write a shell over it and we
made an app.  This was in 2.1, so we did not have the API to
interface it into Preferences.
This is still being used at the company I wrote this for last
summer, First National Bank of Chicago.  If you want the password
daemon/ client combo, I can mail them to you.  It works OK.
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