NAME

yppasswd − update user password in NIS

PROTOCOL

/usr/include/rpcsvc/yppasswd.x

DESCRIPTION

The yppasswd protocol is used to change a user’s password entry in the NIS password database. 

PROGRAMMING

#include <rpcsvc/yppasswd.h>
yppasswd(oldpass, newpw)
char ∗oldpass
struct passwd ∗newpw;

If oldpass is indeed the old user password, this routine replaces the password entry with newpw. It returns 0 if successful.

SEE ALSO

yppasswd(1), yppasswdd(8C)

NEWS-OSRelease 4.2.1R