Oops!  I see I misread your problem -- you're attempting to change a
normal users's password from the root account.

If you're NIS password table is also the local table on the NIS master,
you should be able to do the same thing for the 'martti' account while
logged into the NIS master:

  # passwd -l martti

This should bypass NIS for this instance.  But you're right, NIS should
allow root to change a normal users's password without prompting for the
old one.

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On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Eric Fox wrote:

> Assuming root's password is in the local passwd db and not the NIS table,
> try:
>
>   # passwd -l root
>
> Which should ignore NIS and only update the local passwd database.
>
> --
>   /\---/\  Eric J Fox
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>
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I can't change the NIS password as root on the NIS master server
> > because it asks me the old password (which I can't remember).
> > Any ideas what's wrong?
> >
> > yppasswdd_mkpw.c:
> >      $NetBSD: yppasswdd_mkpw.c,v 1.9.2.1 2002/11/24 16:07:29 tron Exp $
> >      $NetBSD: yppasswdd_mkpw.c,v 1.9.2.1 2002/11/24 16:07:29 tron Exp $
> >
> > ROOT sl:~> id
> > uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),2(kmem),3(sys),4(tty),5(operator),20(staff),31(guest)
> >
> > ROOT sl:~> passwd martti
> > Changing YP password for martti.
> > Old password:
> >
> > ROOT sl:~> ps axw
> > ...
> >   102 ?? Ss    0:00.29 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
> >   117 ?? Ss    0:00.41 /usr/sbin/rpcbind -l
> >   121 ?? Ss    0:56.15 /usr/sbin/ypserv -d
> >   125 ?? Ss    0:17.95 /usr/sbin/ypbind
> >   129 ?? Ss    0:00.01 /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd -d /var/yp
> >
> >
> > Martti
> >
> > ---
> > Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>      NetBSD - No media hype
> > http://www.iki.fi/kuparine/                     http://www.netbsd.org/
> >
> >
>
>