On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Lachlan Gunn wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm setting up NIS for my home network using OpenBSD on the
> server-side. However, when I try to make changes (ie. to the
> passwords) on the client side (Gentoo Linux) it responds with an error
> (without any information on what that error is). Upon attempting to
> do the same operation on the OpenBSD box, it responds with an error
> telling me "Couldn't change YP password information.".
>
> Am I understanding correctly that I am supposed to be using chsh -y?
> chsh without the -y only changes the local data without modifying the
> NIS-stored data.
Check rc.conf, yppasswd is disabled by default.
-Otto
