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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

8928.0. "NIS yppasswd problem.. Mismatch - password unchanged." by WONDER::BENTO (I've got TV but I want T-Rex...) Fri Feb 21 1997 14:32

    I'm having problems with NIS passwd changes on some clients.
    
    A user loging onto a NIS client on one subnet can change his passwd
    using yppasswd . If the user goes onto another client, and then try
    the yppasswd command they get an error of 
    
    % yppasswd
    Changing NIS password for smithj
    Old NIS password:
    New password:
    Retype new password:
    Mismatch - password unchanged.
    
    Output of 'ypwhich' points to the NIS server.
    Output of 'ypcat passwd' shows what it should.
    Seems to me that the problem is in the writing back to the server
    since logging in works fine.
    
    Any ideas on what is wrong?
    Regards,
    -TB
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