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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.yppasswdd, yppasswdd — Server for Modifying NIS Password File

Synopsis

/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/rpc.yppasswdd [-D directory][-nogecos][-noshell]
  [-nopw][-m argument1
						argument2...]
/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/rpc.yppasswdd[passwordfile [adjunctfile]][-nogecos] 
  [-noshell][-nopw][-m argument1
						argument2...]

Description

The rpc.yppasswdd daemon is a server that handles password change requests from yppasswd(1). It changes a password entry in the passwd, shadow, security.adjunct, and passwd.adjunct files. The passwd and shadow files provide the basis for the passwd.byname and passwd.byuid maps. The passwd.adjunct file provides the basis for the passwd.adjunct.byname and passwd.adjunct.byuid maps. Entries in the passwd, shadow or passwd.adjunct files are changed ...

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