How to Change a password in the NIS map?
Previous to Solaris 2.5.1, from any NIS client, any user may run the command: # yppasswd As of 2.5.1 you should be using the passwd command since it follows the naming services currently in use on the machine and changes the appropriate password database (from the /etc/nsswitch.conf file). Read the man page for passwd(1) for more details. All three commands: passwd, nispasswd (for NIS+) and yppasswd (for NIS) are hard links to the same binary 3.13: How to Change IP address, Host Name, or domainname. If you are changing the IP address, host name or domainname of a NIS machine, you must tear down NIS on the affected machine, make the changes, and then rebuild it. The standard procedure is: 1) remove the NIS files and reboot, per Section 3.7 or 3.8 2) edit the appropriate files to make the desired changes 3) rebuild your NIS environment per sections 3.1 through 3.5 If you are removing a NIS master server permanently you should choose a new machine to be the master and update the ypservers
