YPPASSWD(1) BSD General Commands Manual YPPASSWD(1)NAME
yppasswd -- modify a user's NIS password
SYNOPSIS
yppasswd [user]
DESCRIPTION
yppasswd changes the user's NIS password.
The yppasswd command is deprecated. See passwd(1) for more information.
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yppasswd() - update user password in Network Information Service
SYNOPSIS
[flag]... file... [library]...
DESCRIPTION
If oldpass is the old, unencrypted user password, this routine replaces the password entry with the encrypted newpw.
RPC Info
Program number:
XDR routines:
xdr_yppasswd(xdrs, yp)
XDR *xdrs;
struct yppasswd *yp;
xdr_passwd(xdrs, pw)
XDR *xdrs;
struct passwd *pw;
Procs:
Takes struct yppasswd as an argument; returns an integer.
Behaves the same as the yppasswd() function. Uses UNIX authentication.
Versions:
Structures:
struct yppasswd {
char *oldpass; /* old (unencrypted) password */
struct passwd newpw; /* new pw structure */
};
MULTITHREAD USAGE
Thread Safe: Yes
Cancel Safe: Yes
Fork Safe: No
Async-cancel Safe: No
Async-signal Safe: No
These functions can be called safely in a multithreaded environment. They may be cancellation points in that they call functions that are
cancel points.
In a multithreaded environment, these functions are not safe to be called by a child process after and before These functions should not be
called by a multithreaded application that support asynchronous cancellation or asynchronous signals.
RETURN VALUE
returns 0 if successful and -1 if an error occurs.
AUTHOR
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO yppasswd(1), yppasswdd(1M).
yppasswd(3N)
Greetings All,
I am newbie to Unix. Have the following issue:
Users are unable to change their password themselves.
After they ash to a specific box (NIS Account is extended to that box)and then su as them with an assigned password and run command to change the password they get this error:
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I tried to change the root password. but it shows the following error.
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
passwd: password unchanged
If I login as a normal user that time I'm able to change my (user) password.
If I login as a ROOT then I'm not able to change the password root... (6 Replies)
Goodmorning
i am preparing Nis for my test lab.Running Redhat 5.4 on master and centos for my client.Master server running portmap,ypserv,yppasswdd and client running portmap,ypbind and ypxfrd.
ypcat and other yp commands are running fine frm client.But when i try yppasswdd on client to change... (1 Reply)