On Wed, Apr 14, steve-ss wrote:
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 14:25, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Wed, Apr 14, Dominik Epple wrote:
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.
No, it should NOT. This is stupid. Think twice about this. If you trust root for chaning NIS passwords, everybody can change the NIS password of every user without knowing the old one. In this case, you don't need passwords anymore.
Sorry if I'm being thick today but if root can't change passwords then who can? Everyone else gets asked for the old password first. If you don't know it then you can't change it. . .?
The NIS protocol allows only the user to change the password with NIS. Else root has to change it on the local machine without NIS and rebuild the maps. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B