OK, got it! On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Irvine Short wrote:
> FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE NIS master, trying to change password for NIS user on > same machine. One other client - Red Hat 7.3 > > All works fine, can log in to both machines, can ypcat all the maps, etc. > > However when I try and change password on the FreeBSD box I get this: > > passwd: failed to change NIS password: RPC: Server can't decode arguments I had all the user's login shells set to /bin/bash with an appropriate symlink on the 'BSD box so they could have the same login shell on Linux & FreeBSD. I had neglected to update /etc/shells... TIA (thanks in absence?) Irvine _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"