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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!sn.no!vgs.sn.no!zerium From: zerium@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no (Hans Petter Bieke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: How to share password files? Date: 29 Jan 1997 18:49:00 GMT Organization: VGS Lines: 33 Message-ID: <slrn5ev6ss.7p.zerium@pe001.persbraten.vgs.no> References: <slrn5epdvm.8r.zerium@pe001.persbraten.vgs.no> <5cktbv$hdv@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: pe001.persbraten.vgs.no X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.0 BETA UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:2111 On 28 Jan 1997 13:01:51 GMT, J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> wrote: >NIS. As ugly as it might be, it's certainly better than sharing /etc. Okay. I did set up NIS/yp, but chpass doesn't update my passwd files anymore: [zerium@pe001 ~]$ chpass [... $EDITOR execs ...] chpass: zerium: not found in /etc/master.passwd -- permission denied chpass: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged And yeah, that's true. [root@pe049 /etc]# cat master.passwd +:*:0:0::: [root@pe049 /etc]# cat passwd +:*:0:0::: [root@pe049 /etc]# cat group +:*:0: However ypcat passwd works, ypcat master.passwd.byname ++ works (but not ypcat master.passwd.) I have master.passwd in /var/yp/nis-domain/ (just a copy of /etc/master.passwd). Does anybod know what's wrong? (Same prob with passwd) -- Linux; 64bit, multi-platform, multi-tasking, multi-user, fast and Free. Microsoft Windows 95 - From the makers of EDLIN and FAT drive formatting! "Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?