Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:11:00 -0000 From: "Greg Quinlan" <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Passwords in FreeBSD 2.2.7 do not work in 3.0 Message-ID: <01be290e$ac139cc0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01BE290E.AC139CC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Problem: Can not change the password on any user including root! (using passwd) Solution: Set nisdomainname=3D"NO" ,**NOT** to your domainname (if you have not = got NIS setup yet) This does not have any effect in 2.2.x but 3.0! How's that? Greg ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01BE290E.AC139CC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 = HTML//EN"> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT><FONT color=3D#000000 = size=3D2>Problem:</FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Can not change the password on any = user=20 including root!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>(using passwd)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Solution:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Set nisdomainname=3D"NO" ,**NOT** to your = domainname=20 (if you have not got NIS setup yet)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>This does not have any effect in 2.2.x but=20 3.0!</FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>How's that?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Greg</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01BE290E.AC139CC0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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