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I just upgraded to Solaris 9, and have NIS+ running on the system. I find that when I try to change the password on user accounts: passwd -r nisplus guest it now prompts me for the root password. Does anyone have any idea why it wants roots password?

I just upgraded our NIS+ root master server from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9. All patches are current as of Aug 22nd. Now , when using the following syntax passwd -r nisplus [username] I get the message : passwd: User unknown: [username] The user is shown as existing ,when I do ; niscat...

I normally download the recommended patches once a month and install them on my system. I find that as the cluster becomes bigger, it give a "not enough space in /var to install" message and does not install, unless I remove files and makes space, but when the installtion is complete...

Hi, Does anyone know exactly how the floppy access is done with regards to volcheck. I have found that if floppys are manually ejected without issuing the 'eject floppy' command, that the floppy names remain in the /floppy directory, and after many occurences of this, the floppy drive becomes...

Does anyone know how the lock screen option can be disabled for users, on the CDE? Kris.

Hi, I have autoloader which I use for backups. Is there any way in which to unload one tape and upload the next tape programatically, instead of doing it manually? I do the backups through a cron job, but I still have to come in the next day to upload the next tape. Any help will be greately...

When trying to boot up a Solaris 8 system, I get the following message: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist cannot open kernel And it stops booting. This machine was working fine, without any problems, and with all the security patches in it, until this happened. Does anyone know why...

When trying to boot up a Solaris 8 system, I get the following message: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist cannot open kernel And it stops booting. This machine was working fine, without any problems, and with all the security patches in it, until this happened. Does anyone know why...

I added quotas to a filesystem that already has users on it. I find that quotas get turned on for new users I create but not for the old users. What do I need to do to make sure that the old users also adhere to the quota system? Thanks.

Hello, We have a laser printer which is its own server. It is on the network and the Solaris 8 machines have access to it. I found that telneting to the printer does not allow me to monitor the queue. Does anyone know how I can monitor the queue remotely? How do I configure what types of files...

I have quotas set for the /users partition, and quotas seem to be working fine. However, I just found out that there are some users who are over their quota and can still log on to the system. I did a edquota and reset the quota, but the timelef field always says 'NOT STARTED'. I read the...

I want all users to be able to run the command chown which means that I would have to set the rstchown=0 in /etc/system file on a Solaris machine. What are the repurcussions in terms of quotas and suid and guid?

I want to create a script that would run on Solaris 8, that would read the username and password arguments into the script and actually create the password for that user. The password comand does not allow me to do the following: USERID=$1 PASSWORD=$2 echo $PASSWORD | passwd $USERID Please help.