14 Apr
2004
14 Apr
'04
10:54
On Tuesday 13 April 2004 16:19, Louis Richards wrote:
steve-ss wrote:
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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?
yppasswd is the command for changing NIS passwords.
but SuSE 9.0 gives this: steve@sbs2:~> yppasswd steve yppasswd is deprecated, use /usr/bin/passwd instead Changing password for steve. Old Password: