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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:38:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SNAP and NIS (passwd no work!!)
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.961021193836.9453B-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199610212226.RAA23785@main.gbdata.com>

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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Gary Clark II wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've got a current machine here acting as an client
> to a 2.1.5 server.  When I go to change a local
> passord I get the following error:
> 
> webserv:gclarkii# passwd
> passwd: failed to create handle: RPC: Program not registered
> 
> passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
> 
> Even passwd -l does the same thing:(
> 
> Changing the password is the only thing that does not work.
> All other parts of the NIS system seem to work fine.
> I can also change the passwords on all of the 2.1.5 hosts just fine.
> 
> Any ideas?  This is about to drive me nuts...

Tried yppasswd?

> 
> Gary
> 
> --
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> 

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