On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 14:59, Conor Wynne wrote:
> When changing a password with yppasswd it takes some time to deploy this
> change to the AIX-Clients, which means that you can`t log in with your new
> password "immediately" after changing it.
>> ypserv runs on a linux box, ypcat passwd / group etc etc works perfectly.
>> Any ideas?
I assume you mean that ypcat passwd shows the change immediately, even
though you cannot login using the new password. In this case, I'd
suspect that something on the AIX box is caching the passwd map.
Cheers,
John
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