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- From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (A. Bryan Curnutt)
- Subject: Re: yppasswdd daemon - Why can't I change my password?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.165352.24039@uhura1.uucp>
- Keywords: password passwd SUNOS daemon
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- Organization: Stoner Associates, Inc./DREM Incorporated, Houston Texas
- References: <1993Jan5.015559.3324@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:53:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.015559.3324@netcom.com> dsra@netcom.com (DRSA) writes:
- >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.
-
- If the passwd map isn't being propegated when people change their
- passwords, you may also need to use the undocumented (at least in
- the on-line man page) -nosingle flag:
-
- /usr/etc/rcp.yppasswdd /var/yp/passwd -nosingle -m passwd
-
- This apparently works around a bug in yppasswdd. (When I called Sun
- to report the problem, the support rep told me, "Huh. I thought that
- was fixed in 4.1.2.")
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