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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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rpc.nispasswdd, nispasswdd — NIS+ Password Update Daemon

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/rpc.nispasswdd [-a attempts][-c minutes][-D][-g][-v]

Description

The rpc.nispasswdd daemon is an ONC+ RPC service that services password update requests from nispasswd(1) and yppasswd(1). It updates password entries in the NIS+ passwd table.

rpc.nispasswdd is normally started from the /etc/rc2.d/S71rpc system startup script after the NIS+ server (rpc.nisd(1M)) has been started. rpc.nispasswdd determines whether it is running on a machine that is a master server for one or more NIS+ directories. If it discovers that the host is not a master server, then it promptly exits. It also determines whether rpc.nisd(1M) is running in NIS(YP)-compatibility mode (the -Y option) ...

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