On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Lachlan Gunn wrote: > Hi, > I'm setting up NIS for my home network using OpenBSD on the > server-side. However, when I try to make changes (ie. to the > passwords) on the client side (Gentoo Linux) it responds with an error > (without any information on what that error is). Upon attempting to > do the same operation on the OpenBSD box, it responds with an error > telling me "Couldn't change YP password information.". > > Am I understanding correctly that I am supposed to be using chsh -y? > chsh without the -y only changes the local data without modifying the > NIS-stored data.
Check rc.conf, yppasswd is disabled by default. -Otto