> > 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).
Yes, from client to client is immediate. But it takes some time for the server to be updated.
> Have you seen that the NIS passwd map
> and its source
> file have really been changed ?
From which way? The above example is done on zeus, with yppasswdd runnning on zeus. If I try and change the passwd on zeus, nothing changes, but on the client if I do a 'ypcat passwd' before and after the passwd change it is different.
> Do you perhaps have some
> restrictions set up
> such that zeus can't make an RPC call on zeus ?
how do I find this out? where would the normal places be to remove this?
my hosts.allow is empty, and hosts.deny has a single lin
http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL
Do I need to add something here?
> Have you any
> slave servers
> in the network ?
No. Just the one server serving what is now 3 Linux PCs, 1 Linux MAC, 3 PPC Linux Cards. Next stage is to add 4/5 Solaris Boxes.
> 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 :-)
Your help is greatly appreciated.
RikD.
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