From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 16 08:10:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA03286 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:10:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk (amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk [194.81.5.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03265 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:10:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk) Received: from greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk (gquinlan.qmpgmc.ac.uk [194.81.0.56]) by amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA19702 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:07:53 GMT Reply-To: "Greg Quinlan" From: "Greg Quinlan" To: Subject: Re: Passwords in FreeBSD 2.2.7 do not work in 3.0 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: <01be290e$ac139cc0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003E_01BE290E.AC139CC0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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
Problem: 
 
Can not change the password on any = user=20 including root!
(using passwd)
 
Solution:
 
Set nisdomainname=3D"NO" ,**NOT** to your = domainname=20 (if you have not got NIS setup yet)
This does not have any effect in 2.2.x but=20 3.0! 
How's that?
 
Greg
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