Programming

Hello,

I'm implementing a change password interface in our company's AIX application but am having trouble getting it to work with NIS using the chpass subroutine.

According to the "chpass" subroutine man page it handles password changes for local, NIS, and DCE passwords.

However "chpass" is only changing the local user password in my test program. NIS still recognizes the old password.

Using the passwd command from the command line updates NIS so I'm wondering why calling "chpass" from my test program does not update NIS?

Here's the basic logic for completeness:
call "loginrestrictions" to check for login restrictions
call "authenticate" to athenticate the user
call "passwdexpired" to check for expired password
call "chpass" if password expired and user can change it

The architecture for this intranet application is: the clients are Windows IE browsers communicating with an inetd daemon on AIX. "chpass" is being called from the inetd service running as root.

I appreciate any suggestions.

Apparently this is the nature of NIS. Found it to work if on the master but not when on the clients. The passwd command behaves the same way. It looks like there may be more support for password expiration and such in more recent versions of NIS+ in AIX 5.3 but we aren't there yet so have not tested it.