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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

This alias should be a great default addition to the bashrc... as it helps install packages to a CentOS system from the mounted install CD before you get networking up and running... alias localyum='yum --disablerepo=* localinstall' Does Red Hat care about Requests for Enhancement? or is filing a bug pointless? FC

Hi, I have an interesting problem I was not able to solve, even after looking through the site''s documentation and searching on this mailing list...so here it is: I have an FTP server behind my Shorewall box, in my LAN (I know, bad security practice), and ports are mapped through DNAT rules. Now, whenever I transfer big files, at high, sustained data rates (~40-50KB/s), Shorewall seems