Sorry, I got in a clean out mode and deleted my responses to this issue so
I can't thank specific people. Anyway it appears that the problem was that
NIS was set up prior to the upgrade and somehow that got messed up during
the upgrade. Since I don't need NIS to be set up I'm not going to worry about
it. Specifically the mkpasswd script which came with expect called yppasswd
if it existed. Since NIS apparently was set up yppasswd existed and was
called. Unfortunatley since NIS was no longer configured correctly I would
get the error "can't get domain". I hard coded the script to call passwd
instead
and all is well.
Original message:
I upgraded from DU 3.2g to 4.0d over the weekend. An individual several
years ago found a utility which allowed us to generate random passwords
and change them on user accounts. After the upgrade this no longer works.
The program is mkpasswd and is somehow tied into a product called expect
and another called tcl. I went out and got the latest versions of each,
compiled and installed them and still noluck.
When I invoke the program passwd, which is a script, which we have renamed
mkpw to eliminate confusion, we get an error message. If we use it with a
username we get the error "can't get domain". If we use it without a user-
name it will give us a random password as it is supposed to.
When used with a username it is supposed to generate the password and then
change it in the password file. Could this have something to do with the
hashing issue which I have read about? I see that when I go to use vipw
I now get a warning about things could take a long time to rebuild.
Paul Crittenden
Computer System Manager
Simpson College
e-mail: crittend_at_simpson.edu
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Received on Wed Jul 15 1998 - 15:55:33 NZST