Changing a users password in /etc/passwd instead of NIS

[anindya banerjee]

Dear Dave Martini ,  

 

                                If user change his password typing command passwd. if it's not taken 

 then you have to see the permision of passwd file. It's location /usr/bin/passwd   -r-s--x--x

you have see the sgid bit set or not. I told this permision is redhat-9. I use the RHELAS 3 and 

4 but I could 't remember the permision of passwd file. Try it I hope you will be overcome this problem.

 

                                                                                                 regards

                                                                                           Anindya Banerjee


Dave Martini <martini at mrpeabody.llnl.gov> wrote:
I would like a user to change his password on his local RHEL 3 account 
but when typing

passwd

it is going to NIS since this machine is a NIS client.

In Solaris there is a command

passwd -r files

which means to update the local files but I don't see that option in 
redhat.

How do I change the local account password for a user.

Thank You.
Dave Martini
LLNL

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