On Tuesday 13 April 2004 09:59, Dominik Epple wrote:
Hi,
I have a SuSE9 NIS master server and SuSE9 NIS clients.
Changing passwords works in the way that a user types 'passwd' and enters his old passwd and the new password twice.
What is the problem now is that I want to be able to set/change a user's password as root without knowing the user's password. This is a common task if a user has forgotten his password, for example.
Now, how do I setup the master to do so? Doing (as root) on the NIS master 'passwd john', I get the response
Changing password for john. Old Password:
which is exactly what I do NOT want. It does not help feeding root's password in there, and since I do not know the user's password, I am unable to change the password.
Any help?
Thanks in advance,
Dominik. --
As root it should look like this: passwd john Changing password for john. New password: Does john have his account on the master server?