passwd: unknown user

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 03:38:39PM +0100, friedrich_lehn@ch.schindler.com wrote:
> Dear group,
> 
> is the passwd command supposed to work on NT?
> I always get the message:
>       passwd: unknown user LEHNFR
> although I added the account to my /etc/passwd using
>       mkpasswd -d <our domain>|grep LEHNFR >>/etc/passwd
> and checked for /etc/group too. Is there anything else I have to do?

passwd is not domain controller aware and works only on a local machine
or on the domain controller itself.  Patches gratefully accepted.

Corinna

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