Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Michael Williams <mmw1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No. The RedHat client-server installation worked perfectly. The SuSE
client-server installation does not allow users to change passwords.

I guess the next step is to setup a RH NIS server with SuSE clients to
see if the problem is the server or client.

The sad part is we may have to return to RedHat and hundreds of students
will get the message that RH is superior to SuSE (which it is not). 

 Fri, 2004-09-03 at 18:31, steve-ss wrote:
> On Friday 03 September 2004 19:54, Michael Williams wrote:
> > We recently switched from RH9 to SuSE for student use. We
> > setup a NIS for student use using SuSE Linux I386 9.1
> > Professional. We set it up with YAST2 and added the
> > appropriate auto.master and auto.home files. Everything
> > works fine except students cannot change their passwords.
> > When they try, they get the following message:
> >
> > student1@linux:~> yppasswd
> >
> As this happens with both a rh9 and a SuSE9.1 NIS server 
> then can we narrow the problem down to the SuSE NIS 
> clients?
> 
> (sorry, should have included this in my last posting)
> Steve.
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Michael Williams, Ed.D.
Professor, Computer Information Systems
The University of Akron
(330) 972-7385