by Kit-pui Wo » Thu, 27 May 1999 04:00:00
yppasswd cannot do because it will prompt for the user's
old password. Is there any way round ?
Please drop me any hint by email
Many thanks in advance !
KiT
by kris » Thu, 27 May 1999 04:00:00
> yppasswd cannot do because it will prompt for the user's
> old password. Is there any way round ?
by Volker Borche » Thu, 27 May 1999 04:00:00
On the NIS server, do
# passwd -l -F /your/nis/source/dir/passwd username
# cd /var/yp
# make passwd.time netid.time
(this is on 4.1.4, check the manual page for 5.x)
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by Timothy J. L » Thu, 27 May 1999 04:00:00
Are you doing it as root on the NIS master server?
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by herl.. » Wed, 02 Jun 1999 04:00:00
> yppasswd cannot do because it will prompt for
the user's
> old password. Is there any way round ?
> Please drop me any hint by email
> Many thanks in advance !
> KiT
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by Kit-pui Wo » Fri, 04 Jun 1999 04:00:00
I have just found a solution.
I edit the YP's passwd file (passwd.nis) with
vi, blank the user password field.
Then quit vi, do yppasswd <user>, press <enter>
when promoting for old password. Finally enter
the new password twice.
That's all.
Thanks to all friends here for your helps.
KiT
: hmmm.. unless my rapidly depleting braincells
: deceive me, doing a yppasswd <username> on your
: nis server should enable you to change a person's
: nis passwd.
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by Heiko Klei » Thu, 10 Jun 1999 04:00:00
> I have just found a solution.
> I edit the YP's passwd file (passwd.nis) with
> vi, blank the user password field.
>.....
And this is possible after several patches. (I made a Y2K upgrade andQuote:> : hmmm.. unless my rapidly depleting braincells
> : deceive me, doing a yppasswd <username> on your
> : nis server should enable you to change a person's
> : nis passwd.
Heiko
by Christopher M. Arnol » Tue, 22 Jun 1999 04:00:00
>yppasswd cannot do because it will prompt for the user's
>old password. Is there any way round ?
>Please drop me any hint by email
>Many thanks in advance !
>KiT
1. NIS+ user management [Was: Re: root changing a user's password (NIS)]
And Solaris 2 removed `passwd -f <filename>'; the "-f" option now
means "force password change at next login".
. What other ways are there that are safer?
Good question. I haven't used Solaris 2 at a large site long enough
for it to be much of an issue. When necessary, I've just done as you
and edited the file by hand (using Emacs, which when saving at least
gives warning if the file's been changed). Several years ago at Sun,
I recall there being a `viyp' utility for editing NIS files. Maybe
they made it publically available. I think it's harder to enforce
such a utility's use than it is to write one. ;-)
On a related note -- what is the recommended/approved/best way to add
new users and remove ex-users to/from NIS+ ?? One would hope `useradd'
could do it -- nope. The NIS+ utilities `nis{addent,populate}' are
tailored towards adding to NIS+ tables from ASCII files or NIS maps
rather than dealing with a single "user" entry. And using plain
`nistbladm' and `nisaddcred' options is crude and error-prone.
I've searched to no avail for some "cookbook" method of handling NIS+
user management. My old NIS+ book was useless for that issue. Maybe
I just have a blind spot. Any suggestions would be appreciated...
thanks!
-sjk
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