From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 7:23:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EEE37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:23:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from btcips73x6.cip.uni-bayreuth.de (btcips73x6.cip.uni-bayreuth.de [132.180.237.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC4B43FBF for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:23:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kellner.robert@gmx.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=btcips73x6 ident=foobar) by btcips73x6.cip.uni-bayreuth.de with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18vfP8-0002Wq-00; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:22:58 +0100 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:22:57 +0100 From: Robert Kellner To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-mailinglist Subject: Re: noone can change password with yppasswd Message-Id: <20030319162257.319d7ff5.kellner.robert@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030318164358.GB2054@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030318172040.3491700f.kellner.robert@gmx.net> <20030318164358.GB2054@dan.emsphone.com> Organization: Universitaet Bayreuth, Department of Physics X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks a lot, I applied that patch, but that did not seem to work. I get the same errors. Could this have something to do with pam? Robert On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:43:58 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 18), Robert Kellner said: > > I have a problem with passwords on FreeBSD 5.0: I am using NIS, but > > neither root, nor the users can change their nis passwords with > > yppasswd. Root is asked for the old password and when trying to set a > > new one it fails. If a user tries to change his password, this will > > not succeed either. > > > > here are some loggings: > > root tries to change a password: > > > > Changing NIS password for testuser > > Old Password: > > New Password: > > Retype New Password: > > yppasswd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module > > > > from /var/log/messages: > > Mar 18 16:15:30 server yppasswd: in pam_sm_chauthtok(): yppasswd_local(): failed to connect to rpc.yppasswdd: server.mydomain.com: RPC: Program not registered > > I get this too; trying to change the password as a regular user from > the NIS server fails with the same error. I have no workaround for > this. > > > a user tries to change a password: > > > > Changing NIS account information for testuser on server.mydomain.com. > > Changing NIS password for testuser on server.mydomain.com. > > Please enter new password: > > Please retype new password: > > Error while changing the NIS password. > > The NIS password has not been changed on server.mydomain.com. > > > > and from /var/logmessages: > > Mar 18 16:17:24 btcips73x1 rpc.yppasswdd[2320]: pw_mkdb() failed > > Are you exporting /etc/master.passwd via NIS, or are you exporting > /var/yp/master.passwd? There are a couple bugs in rpc.yppasswdd when > you are not exporting /etc/master.passwd. Try the attached patch and > see if it helps. Make backups of /etc/master.passwd and > /var/yp/master.passwd just in case :) > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message