On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:19:56AM -0400, 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:
Yes, it SHOULD, but it DOES not.
Does john have his account on the master server?
Yes.
yppasswd is the command for changing NIS passwords.
If you invoke yppasswd instead of passwd you get # yppasswd john yppasswd is deprecated, use /usr/bin/passwd instead Changing password for john. Old Password: The behaviour of yppasswd is the same as passwd.
I've been using webmin though. It can be set up to change information in other modules. This means when I change a users password, it gets changed in etc, NIS, and samba all at once.
I want (need) a console tool which I can use without X, web browser and stuff. Regards, Dominik.