On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:47:03PM -0700, Jin Guojun [NCS] wrote: > "Jin Guojun [NCS]" wrote: > > > We have experience very strange problem on using NIS over FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x. > > Some uses can change passwd where other users cannot. > > > > case 1: Use FreeBSD 5.1 as NIS server -- NIS client is a FreeBSD 4.9 host > > I can change my passwd any time and any where, and most people cannot. > > If I change my home directory to anywhere else in the master.passwd file, > > re-make in /var/yp directory, then I cannot change my passwd any more. > > It causes yppasswdd dying on signal 11, which most users encountered. > > > > case 2: Use FreeBSD 4.10-BETA as NIS server -- same NIS client > > I have no problem to change passwd, other users do. Failure will not > > kill yppasswdd, but it returns following error: > > > > passwd: failed to change NIS password: RPC: Server can't decode arguments > > > > After this message I still can change my passwd. Also, changing my home > > directory in /var/yp/master.passwd and re-making DO NOT AFFECT > > me to change passwd. > > By searching mail archive, I did not find related problem. > This is what we found: > > If users login with bash, these users are not able to change their passwd. > The error is: > > passwd: failed to change NIS password: RPC: Server can't decode arguments > > Probably bash is not part of default FreeBSD syste, NIS system has not been > tested > with bash for changing password.
Interesting: nice work deducing that. This is clearly a bug --
certainly if rpc.yppasswdd dies with a SEGV, which should never
happen. Please do report this problem via send-pr(1).
However, I think there must be something different about your systems,
as bash(1) is a popular shell and if this was a general problem I
should think someone would have complained about it by now.
Does this apply to other shells than bash -- eg zsh(1), ksh(1)?
Does using the '-v' (verbose logging) flag on rpc.yppasswdd get you
any more information?
Does this still apply if there's an entry for bash in /etc/shells on
the NIS server?
Cheers,
Matthew
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