Problem with passwd on nis master

[Carroll, Jim P]

Todd, your e-mail broaches a similar problem I've had with NIS+, but I'm
curious why you're posting this to a NIS+ list, specifically to do with
Thorsten Kukuk's nis-utils package.

(If you meant to refer to NIS+/nis-utils, my bad....)

I'm definitely going to install the RPMs you mention and see if that helps
my problem.

Jim Carroll

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Broucksou [mailto:tbroucks at cnidr.org]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:51 PM
To: linux-nisplus at lists.samba.org
Subject: Problem with passwd on nis master


Need help with NIS install on RedHat 7.2 Cluster. 

When a user or the root  uses the passwd command to change the user's
password on the master nis server, you get an error;

[tbroucks at louie tbroucks]$ passwd
Changing password for tbroucks
(current) UNIX password:
New password:
Retype new password:
RPC: Timed out
The password has not been changed on louie.cnidr.org.
passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service

But it really did change the passwd

Now as root;

[root at louie tbroucks]# passwd tbroucks
Changing password for user tbroucks
New password:
Retype new password:
RPC: Can't encode arguments
The password has not been changed on louie.cnidr.org.
passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service

In this case it did not change the passwd.

I looked through google and found that RH had a errata on what appears to be
this problem;

pam-0.75-19.i386.rpm
pam-devel-0.75-19.i386.rpm
usermode-1.46-1.i386.rpm

Installed these patches as part of normal build - 

FYI: Yppasswd work's fine on the client nodes.