From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 11 17:33: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7896937B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:32:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (deneb [128.130.111.2]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0C1Wa820473; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:32:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (pfeifer@localhost) by deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0C1WZ875516; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:32:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) X-Authentication-Warning: deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at: pfeifer owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:32:35 +0100 (CET) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Cc: Subject: passwd (still) broken in NIS environments Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Someone changed passwd/yppasswd such that now (on 4.2-RELEASE, put presumably also -STABLE) it is broken. NIS-Server: Solaris 2.6 /SPARC with current Recommended Patches NIS-Client: FreeBSD 4.2 /i386 Changing NIS password for user on NIS-server. Old Password: New password: Retype new password: passwd: failed to change NIS password: RPC: Server can't decode arguments When trying to debug this on the Solaris box, I got the following output from snoop: client -> server PORTMAP C GETPORT prog=100009 (NISPASSWD) vers=1 proto=UDP server -> client PORTMAP R GETPORT port=819 client -> server NISPASSWD C server -> client RPC R (#196) XID=861861090 Garbage arguments Any ideas what might have caused this breakage? This worked w/o problems for the past three or four years (and corresponding FreeBSD releases). Anyone willing to help me debug this? Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message