Re: NIS passwords

2003-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:52, Kirby Clements wrote: > I am having trouble finding out which line to put into /etc/passwd and > /etc/group and so on. None. Just use 'authconfig' to configure NIS authentication. That's it. > I have read that the line: +:: > will work for all users

NIS passwords

2003-02-13 Thread Kirby Clements
This is an issue regarding NIS - if this is not appropriate for this list, no fret taken. I am having trouble finding out which line to put into /etc/passwd and /etc/group and so on. I have read that the line: +:: will work for all users in the passwd file, as long as one places it

Re: nis passwords

2002-01-02 Thread Hidong Kim
OK, I did some more investigating. 'ypwhich -m' returns this: [kim@ripley meetings]$ ypwhich -m netgroup.byuser ripley.emeraldbiostructures.com netgroup.byhost ripley.emeraldbiostructures.com netgroup ripley.emeraldbiostructures.com hosts.byaddr ripley.emeraldbiostructures.com hosts.byname ripl

nis passwords

2002-01-02 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm having problems changing user passwords on our NIS network. All of the machines were recently upgraded to Red Hat 7.2. Users can log in to the machines, but they can't change their passwords. We used to use 'yppasswd' to change passwords. Now the command is going all the through retyp