hpux man page for yppasswd

Query: yppasswd

OS: hpux

Section: 3n

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yppasswd(3N)															      yppasswd(3N)

NAME
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)
Related Man Pages
yppasswd(1) - opensolaris
yppasswd(1) - osf1
xdr(3n) - hpux
xdr_accepted_reply(3n) - hpux
yppasswdd(8) - osf1
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