using solaris NIS server

[Joseph Hoh]

I have a Solaris NIS server. My HPs are NIS clients. The Sun server uses a /etc/shadow file for passwords. Is there a way to get the HPs to reconize a trigger for prompting the user to reset their password. If the password field is blank on the Sun other Sun systems will prompt for a new password but the HPs will not. ",.." doesn't work either. Any ideas?
thanks

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90045/B1031-90045_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90045/00/00/20-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B1031-90045/00/00/20-toc.html&searchterms=nis&queryid=20010413-083117.

Good luck

[Brian Hackley]

Jeff,

Unfortunately there never has been a standard password aging scheme for Unix's. There are two general schemes, the Solaris/Linux /etc/shadow and the HPUX/AIX/Compaq Unix method.

I just tested on an 11.0 system:
NIS client with password local /etc/passwd, and also password via NIS (passwd: compat in /etc/nsswitch.conf) and in both cases:

testhack:,..:114:20::/home/testhack:/sbin/sh

requires the user testhack to enter their password at the next login. This is the only way this can be done for an HP NIS client.
After the password change, the ,.. aging information will be replaced by the encrypted password on NIS master server.

Hope this helps a little,

-> Brian Hackley