hello all,

i am newbie to the world of NIS. i have got a network of 4 Linux
machine all running on Red Hat Linux 8.0. The machine names and the IP
addresses are as follows:

Machine name IP Address
============= ===========
nismaster 192.168.100.101
slave1 192.168.100.102
slave2 192.168.100.103
slave3 192.168.100.104


NIS master is configured and functioning properly, have created a
dummy account "nis" on the master and am able to login successfully on
all the machines. All teh slaves have the entry
ypserver 192.168.100.101
ypserver 127.0.0.1

the configuration i need is that if the nismaster goes down for any
reason i should be able to log in the slave servers using the nis
account. i dont need the password change facility when the master
fails.

secondly how can i configure to change the password non-interactively
(from www). i know how to do that for local accounts using PAM/crypt,
is there any procedure to change password from the web

thanks in advance

Sandeep