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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:58:51 +0100
From:      Robert Kellner <kellner.robert@gmx.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mailinglist <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: noone can change password with yppasswd
Message-ID:  <20030319175851.323cb9d6.kellner.robert@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030319153947.GF91803@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20030318172040.3491700f.kellner.robert@gmx.net> <20030318164358.GB2054@dan.emsphone.com> <20030319162257.319d7ff5.kellner.robert@gmx.net> <20030319153947.GF91803@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:39:48 -0600
Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:

> In the last episode (Mar 19), Robert Kellner said:
> > Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> 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.
I am not using /etc/master.passwd as NIS passwd, I have a sepearte
master.passwd in /var/yp
I commented out the daemon(0,0) call and I got the following (as root):

from yppasswd:bash-2.05b# yppasswd testuser
Changing NIS password for testuser
Old Password:
New Password:
Retype New Password:
yppasswd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module

/var/log/messages:Mar 19 16:58:03 btcips73x1 yppasswd: in pam_sm_chauthtok(): yppasswd_local(): failed to connect to rpc.yppasswdd: btcips73x1.cip.uni-bayreuth.de: RPC: Program not registered






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