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What is the difference between the passwd and yppasswd utilities?
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When a user who is authenticated using NIS passwords runs passwd to change her password, all appears to work properly, yet the user's password is not changed: The user needs to use yppasswd. The root and system accounts, in contrast, must use passwd to change their passwords. A common solution to this problem is first to rename passwd-for example, to rootpaswd-and then to change its permissions so only a user working with root privileges can execute it. Second, create a link to yppasswd named passwd. You must work with root privileges when you make these changes.
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What command show is the man page for the etcpasswd file and not the passwd command?
Try "man 5 passwd"
What character is used to separate entries in passwd?
You can see this yourself by looking at the passwd file - it is the colon symbol.
How do you change your password in Unix?
passwd
What command will search through etc passwd for all instances of the phrase oot?
grep -i "oot" /etc/passwd (Note, the -i allows the search to be case-insensitive)
Which Linux command can be used to create and reset password for a user?
$ passwd to change your own password:Log in as root to change the password for a user named fred:# passwd fredCommands to add a new user and then set a password for a user named fred:# adduser fred# passwd fred
What command is when you want to change password in UNIX?
passwd
Where are usernames stored in Linux?
In file /etc/passwd
How would you set password restrictions in Linux?
passwd username
What is Linux command ls-file name command?
(ls) means list directory (ls -l) to long list and also used to show file or directory permissions. ========================================================== Tray it ========================================================== [root@localhost /]# ls / ahmedtest boot etc lib media mnt opt root selinux sys usr bin dev home lost+found misc net proc sbin srv tmp var [root@localhost /]# ls /etc/passwd /etc/passwd [root@localhost /]# ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1587 May 27 02:30 /etc/passwd [root@localhost /]# ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1587 May 27 02:30 /etc/passwd [root@localhost /]# ls -n /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 1587 May 27 02:30 /etc/passwd
Display all the users who are having account?
cat /etc/passwd
Which Linux file generates two maps in NIS?
/etc/passwd
How to change password by command prompt?
Answer--CD\ CD windows\system32net userE.g.> net user asks mypa$$wordIf there are people near you and you don't want them to see the password you type, enter:net user *E.g. > net user asks *> Type a password for the user:> Confirm the password:
