August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
1000 pages
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/usr/bin/yppasswd [username] Note
The use of yppasswd is discouraged, as it is now only a link to the passwd(1) command, which you should use instead. Use passwd(1) with the -r nis option to achieve the same results, and be consistent across all available name services.
yppasswd changes the network password associated with the user username in the Network Information Service (NIS+) database. If the user has done a keylogin(1) and a publickey/secretkey pair exists for the user in the NIS publickey.byname map, yppasswd also reencrypts the secret key with the new password. The NIS password may be different from your local one. Use passwd(1) to change the password ...
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