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I'm an old-school Unix guy, so my Linux skills are probably slightly out-dated. But this seems like it should be simple enough.
On a Red Hat Linux system where I do not have root (it is administered by the company IT department), I want to be able to change my login shell. Running chsh gives me:
$ chsh -s /bin/bash
chsh: can only change local entries; use ypchsh instead.
So, I ran ypchsh instead:
$ ypchsh userid
ypchsh: can't find the master ypserver: Internal NIS error
What gives? Anyone have any other ideas?
3Are you really using NIS? Or is it something like LDAP? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams – 2011-05-12T15:32:17.583
I am pretty certain our network is using LDAP, as NIS is pretty antiquated at this point. – Ogre Psalm33 – 2011-05-12T16:19:20.113