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NAME [Toc] [Back]
nispasswd - change NIS+ password information
SYNOPSIS [Toc] [Back]
nispasswd [ -ghs ] [ -D domainname ] [ username ]
nispasswd -a
nispasswd -D domainname ] [ -d [ username ] ]
nispasswd [ -l ] [ -f ] [ -n min ] [ -x max ] [ -w warn ]
[ -D domainname ] username
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
nispasswd changes a password, gecos (finger) field (-goption), home
directory (-hoption), or login shell (-soption) associated with the
username (invoker by default) in the NIS+ passwd table.
Additionally, the command can be used to view or modify aging
information associated with the user specified if the invoker has the
right NIS+ privileges.
nispasswd uses secure RPC to communicate with the NIS+ server, and
therefore, never sends unencrypted passwords over the communication
medium.
nispasswd does not read or modify the local password information
stored in the /etc/passwd file.
When used to change a password, nispasswd prompts non-privileged users
for their old password. It then prompts for the new password twice to
forestall typing mistakes. When the old password is entered, nispasswd
checks to see if it has aged sufficiently. If aging is insufficient,
nispasswd terminates; see getpwent(3C).
The old password is used to decrypt the username's secret key. If the
password does not decrypt the secret key, nispasswd prompts for the
old secure-RPC password. It uses this password to decrypt the secret
key. If this fails, it gives the user one more chance. The old
password is also used to ensure that the new password differs from the
old by at least three characters. Assuming aging is sufficient, a
check is made to ensure that the new password meets construction
requirements described below. When the new password is entered a
second time, the two copies of the new password are compared. If the
two copies are not identical, the cycle of prompting for the new
password is repeated twice. The new password is used to re-encrypt the
user's secret key. Hence, it also becomes their secure-RPC password.
Passwords must be constructed to meet the following requirements:
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+ Each password must have at least six characters. Only the first
eight characters are significant.
+ Each password must contain at least two alphabetic
characters and at least one numeric or special character. In
this case, "alphabetic" refers to all upper or lower case
letters.
+ Each password must differ from the user's login username and
any reverse or circular shift of that login username. For
comparison purposes, an upper case letter and its
corresponding lower case letter are equivalent.
+ New passwords must differ from the old by at least three
characters. For comparison purposes, an upper case letter and
its corresponding lower case letter are equivalent.
Network administrators, who own the NIS+ password table, may change
any password attributes if they establish their credentials (see
keylogin(1)) before invoking nispasswd. Hence, nispasswd does not
prompt these privileged-users for the old password and they are not
forced to comply with password aging and password construction
requirements.
Any user may use the -d option to display password attributes for his
or her own login name. The format of the display will be:
username status mm/dd/yy min max warn
or, if password aging information is not present,
username status
where
username The login ID of the user.
status The password status of username: "PS" stands for password
exists or locked, "LK" stands for locked, and "NP" stands
for no password.
mm/dd/yy The date password was last changed for username. (Note
that all password aging dates are determined using
Greenwich Mean Time and, therefore, may differ by as much
as a day in other time zones.)
min The minimum number of days required between password
changes for username.
max The maximum number of days the password is valid for
username.
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warn The number of days relative to max before the password
expires that the username will be warned.
Options [Toc] [Back]
-g Change the gecos (finger) information.
-h Change the home directory.
-s Change the login shell. By default, only the NIS+
administrator can change the login shell. User will be
prompted for the new login shell.
-a Show the password attributes for all entries. This
will show only the entries in the NIS+ passwd table in
the local domain that the invoker is authorized to
"read".
-d [username] Display password attributes for the caller or the user
specified if the invoker has the right privileges.
-l Locks the password entry for username. Subsequently,
login(1) would disallow logins with this NIS+ password
entry.
-f Force the user to change password at the next login by
expiring the password for username.
-n min Set minimum field for username. The min field contains
the minimum number of days between password changes for
username. If min is greater than max, the user may not
change the password. Always use this option with the -x
option, unless max is set to -1 (aging turned off). In
that case, min need not be set.
-x max Set maximum field for username. The max field contains
the number of days that the password is valid for
username. The aging for username will be turned off
immediately if max is set to -1. If it is set to 0,
then the user is forced to change the password at the
next login session and aging is turned off.
-w warn Set warn field for username. The warn field contains
the number of days before the password expires that the
user will be warned whenever he or she attempts to log
in.
-D domainname Consult the passwd.org_dir table in domainname. If this
option is not specified, the default domainname
returned by nis_local_directory() will be used. This
domainname is the same as that returned by
domainname(1).
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Notes [Toc] [Back]
The login program, file access display programs (for example, 'ls -l')
and network programs that require user passwords (for example,
rlogin(1), ftp(1), etc.) use the standard getpwent(3C) interface to
get password information. These programs will get the NIS+ password
information, which is modified by nispasswd, only if the passwd: entry
in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file includes nisplus. See nsswitch.conf(4)
for more details.
RETURN VALUE [Toc] [Back]
The nispasswd command exits with one of the following values:
0 SUCCESS.
1 Permission denied.
2 Invalid combination of options.
3 Unexpected failure. NIS+ passwd table unchanged.
4 NIS+ passwd table missing.
5 NIS+ is busy. Try again later.
6 Invalid argument to option.
7 Aging is disabled.
WARNINGS [Toc] [Back]
HP-UX 11i Version 2 is the last HP-UX release on which NIS+ is
supported.
LDAP is the recommended replacement for NIS+. HP fully supports the
industry standard naming services based on LDAP.
AUTHOR [Toc] [Back]
nispasswd was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
keylogin(1), login(1), nis+(1), nistbladm(1), passwd(1),
domainname(1), getpwent(3C), nsswitch.conf(4), passwd(4).
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