From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 31 1:51:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF1937B401 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:51:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jacques.Beigbeder@free.fr) Received: from trefle.ens.fr (trefle.ens.fr [129.199.96.17]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f7V7rQm45186 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:53:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (beig@localhost) by trefle.ens.fr (8.10.1/jb-1.1) X-Authentication-Warning: trefle.ens.fr: beig set sender to Jacques.Beigbeder@free.fr using -f Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:53:25 +0200 From: Jacques Beigbeder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD NIS client for Sun NIS server & passwd Message-ID: <20010831095325.A26127@trefle.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 I thought it was a FAQ, but I found no answer (except for the question in an asian foreign language...). In the following script, the client is FreeBSD 4.2, the server is Solaris 5.x. client-beig > passwd Changing NIS password for beig on server. Old Password: New password: Retype new password: passwd: failed to change NIS password: RPC: Server can't decode arguments Using an Ethernet sniffer, I see that the RPC packet from the client to the server contains the new password coded with MD5 ($1$Yea....). Is there a simple solution? -- Jacques Beigbeder | Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr Service de Prestations Informatiques | http://www.spi.ens.fr Ecole normale supérieure | 45 rue d'Ulm |Tel : (+33 1)1 44 32 37 96 F75230 Paris cedex 05 |Fax : (+33 1)1 44 32 20 80 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message