[tech] passwd and yppasswd

[Jean-Paul Blaquiere]

> On May 08, Nick Bannon scratched in indelible ink :

> On which machine?
> 
on mermaid and mussel over the last week (until I spoke with grahame and he
enlightened me about yppasswd) passwd complained about my previous password
being wrong.

> On a NIS aware machine, "passwd" probably does the right thing, hence
> people don't have to learn about "yppasswd" explicitly.
> 
that would be a nice expected way for things to work :)

/Jp.
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