Solaris™ 7 Reference

nispasswd — Change NIS+ Password Information

Synopsis

/usr/bin/nispasswd [-ghs][-D domainname][username] 
/usr/bin/nispasswd -a 
/usr/bin/nispasswd -D domainname [-d [username]] 
/usr/bin/nispasswd [-l][-f][-n min][-x max][-w warn][-D domainname] 
  username
					

Description

Note

The use of nispasswd is discouraged, as it is now only a link to the passwd(1) command, which you should use instead. Using passwd(1) with the -r nisplus option achieves the same result and is consistent across all the different name services available.

The login program, file access display programs (for example, ls -l), and network programs that require user passwords (such as rlogin(1) and ftp(1)) use the standard getpwnam(3C) and getspnam(3C) interfaces to get password ...