On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:31:36PM +0100, Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 wrote:
> I've removed the users from /etc/passwd and all seems to work ok now except for setting the password on the server.
>> Using passwd gives the following output
> Old Password:
> New password:
> Re-enter new password:
> yppasswdd not running on NIS master zeus
> Error: Password NOT changed
> Segmentation fault
>> and yppasswd simply gives
> yppasswd: yppasswdd not running on NIS master host
>> But doing an 'rpcinfo -u zeus yppasswd' gives
> program 100009 version 1 ready and waiting
>> Even a 'ps -ae | grep ypp' gives
> 15129 ? 00:00:00 rpc.yppasswdd
>> So what am I missing???
Ooh that's a hard one, as the actress said to the bishop. When you change a
password on client1 is that change immediately propagated i.e. can you
immediately go to client2 and log in with the new password. (When I say
"immediately" here I mean fairly quickly - it can take a few seconds for the
changes to propagate). Have you seen that the NIS passwd map and its source
file have really been changed ? Do you perhaps have some restrictions set up
such that zeus can't make an RPC call on zeus ? Have you any slave servers
in the network ? I'm clutching at straws a bit here as it's been a while
since I ran a big NIS domain and I'm trying to drag things up from
braincells which may well have evaporated by now :-)
Niall
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