Hi,
 I have some problems in our system DEC OSF/1, with NIS. When I try to 
change the passwd of a user I type "yppasswd userid" normally. But the 
program asks the old passwd of the user ! Normally I just press enter 
here but, then it does not change the passwd. So, I edit the 
/usr/var/yp/src/passwd file and change the passwd manually. As you can 
guess this is not a secure way. 
 The other problem is that; When a user try to change its login shell 
with chsh it doesnot succeed, because this user is not exist at 
/etc/passwd and says " use yppasswd command to change your shell ..", but 
yppasswd does not have any parameter ! ( only parameter is is userid to 
change passwd, even it does not work )
 Similarly chfn does not work...
 Do you have suggestions for this. ? I searched an another yppasswd but I 
meet with many error messages ..
 If you can help I will be gratefull.
 Murat Balci
 
Received on Thu Aug 03 1995 - 13:35:07 NZST