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- From: vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: yppasswdd daemon - Why can't I change my password?
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 12:44:49 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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- Message-ID: <1ichehINNpir@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
- References: <1993Jan5.015559.3324@netcom.com>
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- Keywords: password passwd SUNOS daemon
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- In <1993Jan5.015559.3324@netcom.com> dsra@netcom.com (DRSA) writes:
-
- >I just ran into an interesting problem the other day.
- >After upgrading to SUN OS 4.1.2 on a SparcStation, my users were not
- >able to change their passwords, and root was not able to change their
- >passwords either. It reported "no such user". This problem will occur
- >if you are using NIS (or YP). The solution is that you need to start
- >a yp password daemon in your rc.local file on the NIS server. This is
- >detailed in the man page on yppasswdd, near the bottom.
-
- Also, yppasswdd was *still* not fixed right on 4.1.2. A number of
- bugs in it and the whole C2 package existed. The one that burned me:
- If any passwords have the character ":" you get a meaningless error
- message and are unable to change the password for those accounts.
- You can work around this on the server as root using
- passwd -F /var/yp/src/passwd (or wherever you keep it) and doing make.
-
- Preferably you can get the Sun patched version of rpc.yppasswdd.
- 100564-05 seemed to fix my problems. Should be available at
- ftp.uu.net:/systems/sun/sun-dist/100564-05.tar.Z
-
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