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From: Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: NIS/ypbind (passwd)
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> I'm running FreeBSD as a NIS server with a hand full of clients.
> It seems to be necessary to run ypbind also on the server otherwise
> I would be getting that clnt_something rpc error message 

That is the normal way to do it, yes.

> during e.g. every xterm login. OTOH, running ypbind results in
> not letting me set the local password for root for example.
> I always get ' setting NIS password' when using the passwd command.

Man passwd. passwd -l sets the local password.