On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Steve Strong wrote:

> ...does this mean people at the client machines need to use both passwd
> and yppasswd to change their passwords?  And will that allow people to
> login with their new password and still access their home directory
> information?
> steve


AFAIK,  ypasswd is the right way to do this.  Assuming of course that your 
NIS is setup correctly.  passwd is only relevant for local users of the 
host.   passwd updates /etc/passwd of localhost and ypasswd updates 
whatever password file that is defined by the NIS server config.


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