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.