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[Michael Williams <mmw1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thorsten, steve-ss and others,

I solved the NIS yppasswd problem.  The error messages was:

   yppasswdd not running on NIS master rhserver.bustech.uakron.edu
   Error: Password NOT changed
   passwd: Authentication token manipulation error 

The problem was with the clients not the server.  The error message
would lead you to think it was the server, but the server was never
queried. The server was not known to DNS so an entry was needed in the
/etc/hosts file. Perhaps the error message should be changed since it
does not reflect the real error.

Now everything works.

Mike

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Michael Williams
Professor, Computer Information Systems
The University of Akron