Aug 082012
 

A colleague setup an NIS server to centralize the authentication, but on client side, after using yppasswd changed password, it never takes effect (i.e. still have to use old password), but restart ypserv make data sync up.

Quickly google and found this article, then adding “host 127.0.0.1” to /var/yp/securenets then restart (for the last time) ypserv gets this solved.

Jan 072010
 

New year again so I changed my password, but this time seems I picked a bad one.

6 characters need to be input by left hand on keyboard, while only 3 are on right hand side, and left hand is not that good at inputting :(. However, I cannot come up with any other good idea for a password so I have to leave it as-is for sometime.

Maybe after a while once I’ve input enough times, I will feel better.