From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 14:29:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8803B16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-63-198-35-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-198-35-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.198.35.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DEFB43D1D for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:29:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j_guojun@lbl.gov) Received: from lbl.gov (localhost.pacbell.net [127.0.0.1]) ESMTP id i3KKVPdA001080; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:31:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j_guojun@lbl.gov) Sender: jin@adsl-63-198-35-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Message-ID: <4085889D.C5EA07D7@lbl.gov> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:31:25 -0700 From: "Jin Guojun [NCS]" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: zh, zh-CN, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: what things can cause yppasswd failure? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:29:13 -0000 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. ---------- Does any one know what could cause such weird NIS problem? It seems not ENV related problem (may be). Is there some known NIS issues? -Jin