topic Re: NIS password... in Operating System - HP-UX

NIS password...

Jonathan Caplette_1 — Mon, 05 May 2003 16:41:42 GMT

Hi guys,

I've a little problem here, with my HP-UX 11 box.... When a user ask the system to change is password with the command "passwd" the system said "Changing password for on NIS server" and then ask for the Old NIS password... I use NIS for hosts, etc... but I don't want to use it on that machine for passwords, cause I need to have locally saved passwords....

I've added into my nsswitch.conf file those two lines:
passwd: files nis
group: files nis

But even with that it stay ask the users for an NIS password.... How can I tell the system to always take local passwd file instead of the NIS??

Thanks
Jonathan

Re: NIS password...

Romy — Tue, 06 May 2003 07:16:02 GMT

Hi Jonathan,
try the passwd command with the option
"-r files" than it will work.
This means to change the passwd in the local
passwd file and not (as default) in nis passwd

regards
Romana

Re: NIS password...

Jerome Baron — Tue, 06 May 2003 07:40:55 GMT

Hi Jonathan,

If you never use passwd map in nis envirronement, you can remove this file in your nis configuration.

Regards,
Jerome

Re: NIS password...

Zeev Schultz — Tue, 06 May 2003 07:52:29 GMT

Remove "+" entry at the end of /etc/passwd.
Regards

Zeev

Re: NIS password...

Steve Labar — Mon, 12 May 2003 21:00:19 GMT

To remove NIS passwd from one station, you should remove the + from your /etc/passwd file on that station and /etc/nsswitch.conf should not refer passwd to nis, used files only.

Good Luck.

Steve

Re: NIS password...

S.K. Chan — Tue, 13 May 2003 00:12:36 GMT

Hi Jonathan,
Isn't this a done deal ? Your previous post seems to indicate that.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xf1145ec05a7ad711abdc0090277a778c,00.html