Re: NIS - yppasswd not working right

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <E13SM5b-0006W9-00@poinciana.uttyl.edu>,
Nathan Smith  <nsmith@poinciana.uttyl.edu> wrote:
>I'm having trouble with yppasswd in NIS.  The setup is this:  passwd, 
>shadow, group, etc. files are in the /var/yp/ypfiles directory.  Of course 
>there are corresponding files in /etc on the ypserver, but they do not 
>contain all of the users in the /var/yp/ypfiles location.  In the makefile
>YPSRCDIR (sp?) and YPDIR are both set to /var/yp/ypfiles, so as I
>understand it NIS should not be looking in /etc at all.  
>
>Anyone who is on the /var/yp/ypfiles list is able to log in to all of the
>yp clients.  However, only those that are listed in the /etc files are
>able to change their passwords using yppasswd.  Does anybody know how to
>fix this?

Read the manual page of yppasswdd(8); it explains the -D option.
Then adjust /etc/init.d/nis accordingly.

Mike.