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From: Branson Matheson <branson@belgrath.widomaker.com>
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Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP - PROBLEM WITH NIS
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Developer wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know how I can get NIS to work correctly? I have to manually
> kill -HUP ypserv every time an NIS password is changed or the system still
> thinks it is the old one -- ypcat returns the old password???
> 
> I am using FreeBSD 2.2 -- the yp stuff is compiled from -current.
> 
> Any help would be very helpful.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Trefor S.

 Uhhh.. I have to ask .. are you running yppasswdd? if not then the passwords 
will not be updated. 

 - branson