In some email I received from Greywolf, sie wrote:
> 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'?

Ah, no.  If I set it up for kerberos/yp, I don't want that to happen.

Darren