Having just upgraded my NIS (no plus) Master from SuSE 8.0 to 9.0 I all of a sudden have a problem. Normal users can change their NIS passwd running 'passwd', the root user cannot - I'm prompted for the user's password not the root password. Even when running the command on the NIS master. Yppasswd used to help, but these days only informs me that it's deprecated and seems to simply run passwd. Local password file and NIS password file are different on the server, by design. Root is not a NIS user, again, because I like it that way. I _can_ change the password by running htpasswd and using vi(1) on the NIS shadow file (I just did, the problem became apparent because of a user who had forgotten his password), but I was looking for something slightly less ugly. There must surely still be tools? Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 teknisk@mi.uib.no Email: bjornts@mi.uib.no http://www.mi.uib.no/