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Manpages yppasswdSection: User Commands (1)Updated: May 1998 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEyppasswd, ypchfn, ypchsh - change your password in the NIS databaseSYNOPSISyppasswd [-f] [-l] [-p] [user]ypchfn [user] ypchsh [user] DESCRIPTIONThe standard passwd(1), chfn(1) and chsh(1) cannot be used under Linux to change the users NIS password, shell and GECOS information, because they only modify the password file on the local host. For changing the NIS information, they are replaced by their NIS counterparts, yppasswd, ypchfn and ypchsh. These commands are the same program, linked to different names. Using the command line switches, you can choose whether to update your password -p, your login shell -l, or your GECOS field -f, or a combination of them. yppasswd implies the -p option, if no other option is given. If you use the -f or -l option, you also need to add the -p flag. ypchfn implies the -f option, and ypchsh -l. When invoked without the user argument, the account information for the invoking user will be updated, otherwise that of user will be updated. This option is only available to the super-user. If the yppasswdd daemon on the server supports it, you can give the root password of the server instead of the users [old] password. All tools will first prompt the user for the current NIS password needed for authentication with the yppasswdd(8) daemon. Subsequently, the program prompts for the updated information:
SEE ALSOchfn(1), chsh(1), finger(1), passwd(5), passwd(1), ypcat(1), yppasswdd(8), ypserv(8), ypwhich(1)AUTHORyppasswd is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.
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