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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet3!root From: root@buffnet.net (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: npasswd Date: 6 Sep 1995 09:28:39 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 15 Message-ID: <42jpk7$djo@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <42d72u$ktg@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <42f6td$7r7@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet3.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] [deletia] : a password for user 'xxx' rather than root. With NIS, root : is not allowed to change entries for other users. This is : because yppasswdd requires password authentication no matter : who submits requests to it. So even if you were root, you'd : still have to know user xxx's password before you could change it : through NIS. If you want to force someone's password as root, : you have to edit the /var/yp/master.passwd file on the NIS : master server and then remake the NIS maps. You cant use password on the master and then do it? Im curious since I may use a freebsd for a master server if it wont trip me up. Has anyone used freebsd's NIS on a large install (over 500 users)??