Problem with passwd on nis master

Carroll, Jim P jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
Wed May 1 04:29:00 EST 2002


Not sure if this would help, but you could always try the Linux Managers
mailing list:

  http://www.linuxmanagers.org/

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Broucksou [mailto:tbroucks at cnidr.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:49 AM
> To: Carroll, Jim P; linux-nisplus at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: Problem with passwd on nis master
> 
> 
> 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.
> 




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