Synchronizing Windows NT and UNIX Passwords

If you enable synchronized passwords, changing your Windows NT password will automatically change your UNIX password. Enable synchronized passwords by selecting the Enable Password Synchronization option in the Security tab of the Solstice NFS Client Configuration menu.

If synchronized passwords are enabled:

• Changing your Windows NT password by selecting the NT domain will automatically change your UNIX password.

• Changing your UNIX password by selecting the Solstice NFS Client domain will not automatically change your Windows NT password.

Be sure that your passwords are the same before you change passwords with synchronization enabled. If the passwords are not the same, these problems can result:

• When changing passwords by entering the UNIX password, the NT password change fails (since the NT password is not the same) and the UNIX password change will not be attempted. As a result, neither password will change.

• When changing passwords by entering the NT password, the NT password succeeds, but the UNIX password change will fail (since the UNIX password is not the same).

You must be using NIS/NIS+ as your name service In order to change your UNIX password from your Windows NT computer. If NIS/NIS+ is not enabled, then changing your Windows NT password will not affect your password on the UNIX system. To maintain synchronized passwords, you will have to enter the new password manually, on the UNIX computer.