Problem with passwd on nis master

[Todd Broucksou]

Jim,
  I have searched around and have not found a Linux NIS only mailing list 
to post too. I was hoping someone on the list may have run into this 
problem before, and could point me in the right direction.
  My current thinking, is that the problem is focused around the Shadow 
passwords. Somewhat tempted to reinstall NIS from source, to see if their 
is a better compile.


At 09:38 AM 4/30/2002 -0500, Carroll, Jim P wrote:
>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.