[CentOS] NIS expiration of passwords

Michael Coffman

michael.coffman at avagotech.com
Thu Jun 28 20:49:51 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Fabien Archambault <
fabien.archambault at univ-amu.fr> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a NIS server which shares a database of users between some
> computers (nodes exactly) and I would like that, on the first login,
> the user changes its password.
>
> So, on the NIS server I have made: chage -d 0 USER
> Then:
> # cd /var/yp
> # make
>
> On the NIS server I have:
> chage -l USER
> Last password change                                    : password
> must be changed
> Password expires                                        : password
> must be changed
> Password inactive                                       : password
> must be changed
> Account expires                                         : never
> Minimum number of days between password change          : 0
> Maximum number of days between password change          : 99999
> Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7
>
>
> I would believe this information is shared from the server to the
> other computers but here users still can connect (via SSH). If I try
> to get the information on the user connected I have:
> # chage -l USER
> user 'USER' does not exist in /etc/passwd
>
> This looks normal as there is no user there but then I do not know how
> to enable the expiration information through NIS. Do someone has an
> idea?
>
>
You can't.   NIS on linux does not support password aging.



> Thanks,
> Fabien
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