passwd update problems

[Hjorleifur Sveinbjornsson]

Hello,
well I am no expert, but I think you must use nispasswd (see man 
nispasswd) to change passwords in NIS+
(I would do it on the NIS+ server just in case)  you should also copy 
the /etc/group file to your client from the server
I have 15 Red Hat 7.3 clients and Solaris Sparc 5.5 NIS+ server.  And 
when I run niscat passwd.org_dir it works fine.


Maxwell Bottiger wrote:

>Hello,
>	I have a linux client (soon to be many linux clients) connecting 
>to a Sun server through NIS+.  I think I have just about everything 
>working except for one curcial part, passwd.  I've been using my password 
>that was in the server's /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files for a while 
>now, but I'd like to be able to change it.  When I run passwd on my client 
>linux machine I get an error like this:
>
>[mpbottig at host65-156 ~]$ passwd
>Changing password for user mpbottig.
>passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
>
>I never actually get prompted for my password, but my login works and so 
>do programs like niscat.
>
>In my nsswitch.conf file I have the lines:
>passwd:     files nisplus
>shadow:     files nisplus
>group:      files nisplus
>
>
>Well, that's about all I can think to tell everyone right now.  Please let 
>me know what you think.
>
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