9.4. The Program
rpc.yppasswdd
Whenever users change their passwords, the NIS password database
and probably other NIS databases, which depend on the NIS password
database, should be updated. The program "rpc.yppasswdd" is a
server that handles password changes and makes sure that the NIS
information will be updated accordingly. rpc.yppasswdd is now
integrated in ypserv. You don't need the older, separate
yppasswd-0.9.tar.gz or yppasswd-0.10.tar.gz, and you shouldn't use
them any longer.
You need to start rpc.yppasswdd only on the NIS master server.
By default, users are not allowed to change their full name or the
login shell. You can allow this with the -e chfn or -e chsh
option.
If your passwd and shadow files are not in another directory
then /etc, you need to add the -D option. For example, if you have
put all source files in /etc/yp and wish to allow the user to
change his shell, you need to start rpc.yppasswdd with the
following parameters:
rpc.yppasswdd -D /etc/yp -e chsh
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or
rpc.yppasswdd -s /etc/yp/shadow -p /etc/yp/passwd -e chsh
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There is nothing more to do. You just need to make sure, that
rpc.yppasswdd uses the same files as
/var/yp/Makefile. Errors will be logged
using syslog.
