bin/42868 - passwd on NIS master server can't work for users
Alex de Kruijff
akruijff at dds.nl
Sun Apr 20 16:50:17 PDT 2003
The following reply was made to PR bin/42868; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alex de Kruijff <akruijff at dds.nl>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, wkwu at csie.nctu.edu.tw
Cc:
Subject: re: bin/42868 - passwd on NIS master server can't work for users
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 01:43:57 +0200
>Number: 42868
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: passwd on NIS master server can't work for users
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 17 03:20:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Wei-Kai Wu
>Release: FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
Kavalan
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mailgate 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #4: Mon
Sep 16 16:19:03 CST 2002
Wei-Kai at mailgate:/spool/obj/home/src/sys/MAILGATE i386
>Description:
> I use 'passwd' on NIS master server as below: (root account)
> $ /usr/bin/passwd james
> Changing NIS password for root on localhost in domain +csie.nis.
> Why I can't change the james's password on NIS master server?
> The sources' (usr.bin/passwd/*.c) problem or the NIS policy?
The manual (file:/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nis.html)
hold some clue to what you can do. Try using the yp version op passwd
to change you password. (yppasswd) Does this solve you problem?
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
--
Alex
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