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...t for the passwd program. First, the program must be run on the NIS master. Fine. It must be able to change the users password without needing to know the old password when executed by root. That's where I'm having problems. I can set the 'passwd program = /bin/passwd -r files -F /etc/NISFILES/passwd %u', but that doesn't quite work the way I'd expect to. This changes the users password in the /etc/NISFILES/passwd file just fine, but after that I'd need to "cd /var/yp ; make passwd" which sometimes take quite long (60 seconds). It for sure takes WAY longer tha...