On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Darren Reed wrote:

# In some email I received from Mike Pelley, sie wrote:
# [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
# > > How does one change a password in 1.5_ALPHA ?
# > >
# > > # passwd darrenr
# > >
# > > just gives me a Kerberos error...
# > 
# > It seems that
# > 
# > # passwd -l darrenr             (lowercase L)
# > 
# > is now required to change passwords "locally".  I don't use kerberos or
# > similar in my environment, though, and I'd like to make "local" the default
# > if possible (as it was in 1.4.2).
# > 
# > Also, can someone help me get rid of the error "Unknown error: 2529639068
# > while getting initial credentials" when I telnet in?
# 
# I think a better question is "why is kerberos being built in by default ?"

I think an even better question is 'why will it not just fall back and change
the local password when it can't contact kerberos or yp'?

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