[SunHELP] NIS passwd problem

[Adrian Florea]

Hi,

The account created on 2.6 machine is in NIS ?
I think that is the problem.

Adrian.


On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Nigel Trivass wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Firstly just like tosay how big a help this list has been to me.
>
> Theproblem I'm facing is changinguser passwords on a 2.6 machine, when
> using a NIS linux server. I can change a user passwordcreated on the
> linux box.However changing an account created on the 2.6 machine results
> in theerror "incorrect password" , whenprompting for the old password.
> I'm 100% certain I the old password correctly.
>
> I've linked /usr/bin/yppasswd to /usr/bin/passwd, copied
> /etc/nsswitch.nis to /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> I guess something fundamentally is wrong, guess that's why I'm
> anoperator not a sys admin :(
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Nigel
>
> >From: >To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org >Subject: [SunHELP] root user "prompt" ,
> current dir as prompt in bourne shell >Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:06:53
> -0700 (PDT) > > Hi, > >1. > I would like to know where is the setting for
> root >user's shell prompt in solaris. I login to the machine >console as
> root. > >for non-root users it is in /etc/profile and >$HOME/.profile as
> PS1. > >But the root user is not getting the prompt from these >files. >
> >2. I use Bourne shell for a user called xx. Is there >a way in this
> shell to get prompt which displays >"current directory". An example is :
> If change to a >dir called test from my home dir /export/home/xx. I >need
> the prompt to change to /export/home/xx/test. > > with my /etc/profile
> settings as follows, I only get >my home dir in the prompt for user xx. I
> didn't have >any settings in $HOME/.profile for this user xx. >
> >PWD=`pwd` >HOST=`hostname` >PS1="$HOST:$PWD>"
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