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Changing local root password after NIS setup

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felixfong

felixfong

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Apr 5, 2002
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In solaris, I can do a "passwd -r files".

Is there anything like that in Linux?

After I enabled the NIS client, passwd keeps on trying to change the NIS "root" pass instead of the local one.
 
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