- Home
- About
  - Contact
  - Join Skynet
  - History
  - Committee
  - Constitution
  - Society Policy
  - Sponsors
- Services
  - Anyterm
  - Books
  - Encyclopedia
  - Mailing Lists
  - Downloads
  - Memorial
  - WebMail
  - WebIRC
  - Wiki
- User Guide

# The 'yppasswd' command

The command 'yppasswd' is used to change your login password. It is very important that you do this on a regular basis as you never know whose looking over your shoulder when you're logging in. It is recomended that you change your password at least once every two weeks.

    skynet:~> yppasswd
    Changing NIS account information for username on holly.
    Please enter old password:

You type in your current password at this prompt. If you type it in right the following will appear:

    Changing NIS password for username on holly.
    Please enter new password:
    Please retype new password:

Then type in the new password and confirm it. The program will not allow you to chose an easy to guess one....like a dictionary word, or words of all one case or a name, or very short words, so pick one that is hard to guess, for example two unrelated words seperated by a @ or # or something like that.

If the password is changed successfully you will get this message:

    The NIS password has been changed on holly.

Usage:
'yppasswd'

Skynet - University of Limerick Computer Society
XHTML 1.1 :: CSS 2 :: 508 :: © 2009
Disclaimer: Neither Skynet administration nor University of Limerick accept responsibility for users site content.