On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:59:29PM -0600, Barkley Vowk wrote: > I've got a 7.2 box acting as NIS master, running rpc.yppasswdd. When > remote users try to change their passwords they see: > > testing1# passwd mytest > Changing NIS password for mytest > Old Password: > New Password: > Retype New Password: > passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module > > On the server I get this in the logs: > rpc.yppasswdd[36858]: pw_mkdb() failed > > I tracked the error message down to line 620 of yppasswdd_server.c, which > lead me to libutil/pw_util.c. > > It looks like waitpid in mk_pwdb is returning the error "No child > processes", which then makes mk_pwdb return an error. But the child does > run and do it's job as expected. If you edit yppasswdd_server.c to ignore > the return value of mk_pwdb, passwords are changed as expected.
I think this is a side-effect of r184459/r186756, that made rpc.yppasswdd to ignore SIGCHLD.
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