On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, WF NiX (tronik) wrote:

> I had the same problem when i first installed a fresh 1.5_ALPHA snapshot,
> and it took me about aminute to figure out what was going on. 
> After further investigation i found that passwd was now looking for
> 'yppasswd' or some other sort of configuration file, (i took a hunch and
> did 'touch /etc/passwd.conf' and i saw some results, such as now when i
> typed passwd without parameters i got back 'user@DOMAIN.TLD's password'


Yeah, this is what I am seeing now too...

  callisto:root# passwd root
  root@NIANGUA.NET's Password:
  ^C
  callisto:root# 

The /etc/nsswitch.conf file on 1.5_ALPHA is the same as on 1.4Z, which
is: $NetBSD: nsswitch.conf,v 1.5 1999/10/24 12:36:52 lukem Exp $.

Strange...

Brian

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