Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[steve-ss <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
> yppasswd is deprecated, use /usr/bin/passwd instead
> Changing password for student1.
> Old Password:
> New password:
> Re-enter new password:
> yppasswdd not running on NIS master
> rhserver.bustech.uakron.edu Error: Password NOT changed
> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
>
> rpc.yppasswdd is running on the master server (rhserver).
>  There are no slave servers.  Using /usr/bin/passwd
> produces the same results.
>
> What is different about SuSE's NIS compared to RedHat?
> What are we missing?
>
> Mike
>
We asked the same question a few months ago. The only way we 
can change passwords on a homogenous 9.1 lan is for root to 
do it on the server and then rebuild the nis maps.