From: LOEWENTHAL Simon (sloewenthal@gemini.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 11:17:46 EDT
Hi there,
Does anyone know the correct and sure way of changing a normal NIS+ user's
password, when they do not know their original password.
The problem with the procedure below is this:
[root@RMS]nis$ nispasswd Guest
New password:
Re-enter new password:
NIS+ password information changed for Guest
The NIS+ credential information for GuestI will not be changed.
User GuestI must do the following to update his/her
credential information:
Use NEW passwd for login and OLD passwd for keylogin. ---- How? They have
forgotten their password! ---
Use "chkey -p" to reencrypt the credentials with the
new login passwd.
The user must keylogin explicitly after their next login.
[root@aguila]nis$ telnet RMS
Trying 172.16.5.10...
Connected to RMS.
Escape character is '^]'.
login: Guest
Password:
Login incorrect --- Well that failed, even though it tells me to login
with the NEW passwd for login!!
I have tried using the passwd command on the Root Master but as you can see
it falls down because I don't know the user's old password:
passwd GuestI
Enter login(NIS+) password:
I thought that perhaps I should do a keylogin -r on the RMS when I logged
in, but I don't know exactly what that does so I haven't. The only way I
know around this involves deleting and recreating the user's credentials.
I really need a sure-fire way of changing passwords as its daft to use a
system that stops you or makes it extremely difficult for the admin account
to reset a normal user's password. I must be missing something?
Regards,
Simon.
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