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- From: rsj@wa4mei (Randy Jarrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: yp (nis) map changes - how do they happen
- Keywords: passwd yp nis
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.012350.3513@wa4mei>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 01:23:50 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.180340.729@ilinx.wimsey.bc.ca> <lee.715021798@ceg.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Amateur Radio Gateway WA4MEI, Chamblee, GA
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- In <lee.715021798@ceg.uiuc.edu> lee@ceg.uiuc.edu (Chris Lee) writes:
-
- >We have some interesting "problems" running NIS and yppasswd under
- >HPUX 8.07 (9000/700 series machines), however...
-
- >On the NIS Master, when you types yppasswd, you are prompted for the old
- >NIS password (which you type), and then prompted for the new password
- >(twice to check, of course). This is not a problem. However, on some
- >of the clients, when you type yppasswd, you get "permission denied"
- >in spite of the fact that EVERYTHING seems to be there (yes, ypwhich
- >does return the master server, and the passwd file has the entry
- >+: blahblahblah). On some others, you can type garbage at the old NIS
- >password prompt and proceed to the new password prompts, tho if the old
- >one is incorrect, you can't change the password. Anyone with an ounce
- >of common sense would think that if you mistype the old password, the
- >password process would exit...unless this is a security feature (...but
- >on the master, if you mistype the old password, it does exit...).
- >--
- >Chris Lee
- >University of Illinois Urbana
- >lee@ceg.uiuc.edu
- >(217)244-2903
-
-
- We were having the same problem on a 9000/827 system running HP-UX
- 8.02. It turned out to be that we had the system setup as a "trusted"
- system. When I talked to HP support they first placed the blame on the
- Sun system that we are running as a client. I setup an 9000/807 as a
- client and had the same problem. At this point HP support told me it
- was because of the "trusted" system configuration and I would have to
- do a complete OS reload to get rid of it. In talking to someone else
- at HP support I was told that it might be possible to back out the
- trusted setup.
-
- If this is your problem contact let me know via email and I will give
- you the details.
-
- Randy
-
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