On Saturday 04 September 2004 13:34, you wrote:
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.
If we can set this up and it works with a rh nis server and a suse client then we have good grounds to file a bug report. I haven't done so as when we had it working (under the good old bulletproof 8.2) all hell let loose with students changing passwords and forgetting them before the next lesson. But we are dealing with secondary age kids here so we are happy it doesn't work in one sense but frustrated in that we'd like more responsible lan users to be able to avail themselves of the facility. I have a madrake free cd from a magazine. If I get time I'll set that up with a suse client except I think I'd have to setup the nis by hand. Meanwhile someone could save us a hell of a lot of time by letting us in on the secret ;) Cheers from Steve.