Thanks for the replies from Peter Mittermayer, Octave Orgeron, Kazuro
FURUKAWA, Spider.Boardman_at_Orb.Nashua.NH.US, Jim Fitzmaurice, Lucio
Chiappetti, Nikola Milutinovic.
The received answer is that normal NIS users can't change their login
shell except:
1. ask for the help of administrator.
2. upgrade to Tru64 v5.0 in which chsh can handle NIS fine.
3. using ypchfn package from umass.edu.
The url is ftp.cs.umass.edu:/pub/rcf/exp/information/ypchfn.tar.gz
However, my solution is different from the above. Because one client of
our NIS group is linux box, users can use the ypchsh tool to change their
login shell.
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Cai, Xuejun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using NIS passwd. Some users want to change their login shell. When
> issuing chsh command, get the following message:
> User not found in the local /etc/passwd file. Use 'yppasswd' to change an
> NIS passwd entry.
>
> However, it seems that ypppasswd can't change user's login shell. Are
> there any methods to change user's login shell?
>
> Regards,
>
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