Todd Vierling said:

>FWIW, I think that our procedure of linking /etc/master.passwd and the YP
>passwd map is really asking for trouble.  We should consider breaking that
>link, making yppasswdd only update the YP map (and not the local passwd
>file).

Yup. This is a throwback to SunOS 4.x.x, which by default used the files
in /etc to build it's maps. The right way was to edit /var/yp/Makefile
to make the flat files local to /var/yp.

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