failed to change NIS password

[Irvine Short]

OK, got it!

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Irvine Short wrote:

> FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE NIS master, trying to change password for NIS user on
> same machine. One other client - Red Hat 7.3
>
> All works fine, can log in to both machines, can ypcat all the maps, etc.
>
> However when I try and change password on the FreeBSD box I get this:
>
> passwd: failed to change NIS password: RPC: Server can't decode arguments

I had all the user's login shells set to /bin/bash with an appropriate
symlink on the 'BSD box so they could have the same login shell on Linux &
FreeBSD.

I had neglected to update /etc/shells...

TIA (thanks in absence?)

Irvine