From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jul 7 20:57:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (serial0-velvet.Brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4040414C14 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:57:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA02959 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:57:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:57:25 +1000 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS and 'passwd' on client machines In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Ben Vaughn wrote: > I have an NIS setup using ypserv and yppasswdd on my server > machine, and ypbind on my client machine. I was wondering how (if it's > possible at all) I would make it so users on the client machine can change > their passwords on the machine and have the changes reflected in the nis > map on the server. Does anybody have a clue as to how one would do this? Run rpc.yppasswd on the server machine. passwd on the client machine(s) will detect this and use it appropriately with no further configuration required. Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ Sensation Internet Services http://www.sensation.net.au/ Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message