On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Would anyone confirm that the command: mkpasswd <usrid> > will not change the passwd on a server using NIS to distribute > passwords? I will take denials or any advice also.
AFAIK, mkpasswd is only a generator of random strings of text, 9 characters in length. Oops, just took a look at the man page. Didn't know you change the user's password too. Hmmm. No references to NIS in the man page either. Looks like you'd have to use yppasswd to update NIS password, but it also might depend on the actual NIS password map file. If it's /etc/passwd, I would suspect of being updated if mkpasswd is run on the NIS master. Hopefully an NIS guru will confirm/deny these allegations. _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
