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- From: dsra@netcom.com (DRSA)
- Subject: yppasswdd daemon - Why can't I change my password?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.015559.3324@netcom.com>
- Summary: Enabling users to change passwords under SUNOS 4.1.2
- Keywords: password passwd SUNOS daemon
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:55:59 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- I just ran into an interesting problem the other day.
- After upgrading to SUN OS 4.1.2 on a SparcStation, my users were not
- able to change their passwords, and root was not able to change their
- passwords either. It reported "no such user". This problem will occur
- if you are using NIS (or YP). The solution is that you need to start
- a yp password daemon in your rc.local file on the NIS server. This is
- detailed in the man page on yppasswdd, near the bottom.
-
- EXAMPLE
- If the NIS password file is stored as /var/yp/passwd, then
- to have password changes propagated immediately, the server
- should be invoked as
-
- /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd /var/yp/passwd -m passwd
-
- Just thought some people might like to know this.
-