Dear Debian users! Kindly ask for your help re. following problem (I am rather new in this buisness). Here at the college I want to set up a server -client system using nis. So far things work, but when it comes to changing passwords for any user, say user funny, as follows
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ yppasswd Changing password for funny (current) UNIX password: passwd: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. The subsequent configuration seems to be all right -- Any help is appreciated, Alexander. NIS - Server configuration: linux:~# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try: # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file. passwd: files nis group: files nis shadow: files nis hosts: files dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc: db files netgroup: nis in the file "/etc/default/nis" I set "NISSERVER=master" and "NISCLIENT=false" then "/etc/init.d/nis restart" finally, linux:~# ps -ef | grep yp root 15916 1 0 11:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypserv root 15917 1 0 11:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd -D /etc -e chsh root 15921 1 0 11:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.ypxfrd so, everything seems to work here. For the NIS -CLIENT: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/yp.conf ypserver linux.school.com in /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow I added "+::::::", "+:::", and "+::::::::" respectively. the file /etc/nsswitch is identical to that at the server . Finally I checked [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ypcat -h linux passwd funny:x:1004:1004:funny3,,,:/home/funny3:/bin/bash and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -ef | grep yp root 2529 1 0 11:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind root 2530 2529 0 11:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind root 2531 2530 0 11:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind root 2532 2530 0 11:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind so, everthing seems to be working, user funny can log on the client but not change his password. Please what did I do wrong? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
