From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 7:39:51 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 90B1437B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:39:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36DA43FA3 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:39:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) id h2JFdmim022231; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:39:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:39:48 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Robert Kellner Cc: freebsd-mailinglist Subject: Re: noone can change password with yppasswd Message-ID: <20030319153947.GF91803@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030318172040.3491700f.kellner.robert@gmx.net> <20030318164358.GB2054@dan.emsphone.com> <20030319162257.319d7ff5.kellner.robert@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030319162257.319d7ff5.kellner.robert@gmx.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i 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 In the last episode (Mar 19), Robert Kellner said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Mar 18), Robert Kellner said: > > > 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 :) > > 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? rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use pam at all, so I doubt it. So you are using /etc/master.passwd as your NIS passwd file, then? Try commenting out the daemon(0,0) call in yppasswdd_main.c, and run it again. If pwd_mkdb is failing, you should see an error message on stderr. If you are not using /etc/master.passwd, then my patch should never run pwd_mkdb. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message