Root changing user's NIS passwords

[Kenneth Ingham <ingham@i-pi.com>]

I've got a 3.0-STABLE system running YP/NIS successfully.  However, a
user just complained that he had lost his password.  No problem figured
I, I'll just change it as root.  However, if I am using a different
master.passwd for YP than /etc/master.passwd, it does not work; I am
asked for the user's (lost) old password.  Digging through the source, I
see no provision made for root in passwd/yp_passwd.c, which explains the
action I am seeing.

I'm going to go put in my encrypted password string as the old password,
but I was wondering if there was any better solution.
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Kenneth Ingham

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