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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!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!news.cs.ucla.edu!not-for-mail From: Scott Michel <scottm@cs.ucla.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: stale passwd problem Date: 25 Mar 1997 06:39:44 GMT Organization: UCLA CS Dept Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5h7rvg$f07@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: taliesin.cs.ucla.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 970120] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37688 I have a NIS master server, connected to a NIS backup server, serving 2.1.6 clients on a seperate subnet, viz: NIS -> NIS -> client master server backup server I've made sure that the master.passwd.* and passwd.* maps have been transferred to the backup server. Yet, when a user changes their password, the client continues to use the "old" password, even though on the NIS servers, the password *has* changed. What am I overlooking? -scottm