SUMMARY: nisclient -u

From: Stuart Kendrick (sbk@fhcrc.org)
Date: Tue Dec 03 1996 - 12:32:30 CST


The answer is "no", there is no way to automate users running nisclient
-u.

Thanks to:

Francis Liu
Marc Gibian
Rasana Atreya

--sk

Stuart Kendrick
Network Services
FHCRC

Original post:

> After populating the NIS+ tables from the passwd and shadow files, users
> have to run "nisclient -u" and enter the Secure RPC password in order to
> sync their NIS+ and login passwords (and to authenticate against NIS+).
>
> Is there any way to automate this? I would like to run some automatic
> process as root, with /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow as input, and at the
end
> see the NIS+ and the login passwords be the same, thus eliminating the
> need for users to mess with the issue. I thought that
> nisclient or nisaddcred supported this ... but perhaps not.



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