----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Ramsby" <sramsby@u.washington.edu>
To: <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 5:13 PM
Subject: Problems changing root password


> I've just installed the newest version of NetBSD on my MobilePro 800.
First
> thing I do when I boot it up. I log in as root. Type "passwd" to change
the
> password, and I immediately get this message:
> "passwd: failed to parse principal: Configuration file does not specify
> default realm".
>
> What does this mean? What's wrong? How can I fix it? Thanks for your help.

I guess that is a platform independent problem. I don't know much about it
but you could use 'passwd -l'. (-l is small letter of L)

Takemura