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- From: kalwa@sunslc.imw.tu-clausthal.de (Ralf Kalwa)
- Subject: Re: yppasswdd and expire - problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.170606.13169@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:06:06 GMT
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- Ignatios Souvatzis (ignatios@cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
- : After expiring a few user's passwords (too easy guessable), it was no
- : longer possible to change them with yppasswd. Is this a know problem
- : with SunOS 4.1.1's passwd/yppasswd/yppasswdd programs?
-
- The NIS password daemon, yppasswdd, doesn't work when password aging
- is enabled. I think yppasswdd is not able to strip the aging part from
- the password field. :-(
- So, you have to drop NIS if you want to use password aging.
- NIS+ in Solaris 2.x should solve the problem.
-
- Ralf
-