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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:39:48 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Robert Kellner <kellner.robert@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mailinglist <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: noone can change password with yppasswd
Message-ID:  <20030319153947.GF91803@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030319162257.319d7ff5.kellner.robert@gmx.net>
References:  <20030318172040.3491700f.kellner.robert@gmx.net> <20030318164358.GB2054@dan.emsphone.com> <20030319162257.319d7ff5.kellner.robert@gmx.net>

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In the last episode (Mar 19), Robert Kellner said:
> Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> > In the last episode (Mar 18), Robert Kellner said:
> > > a user tries to change a password:
> > > 
> > > Changing NIS account information for testuser on server.mydomain.com.
> > > Changing NIS password for testuser on server.mydomain.com.
> > > Please enter new password:
> > > Please retype new password:
> > > Error while changing the NIS password.
> > > The NIS password has not been changed on server.mydomain.com.
> > > 
> > > and from /var/logmessages:
> > > Mar 18 16:17:24 btcips73x1 rpc.yppasswdd[2320]: pw_mkdb() failed
> > 
> > Are you exporting /etc/master.passwd via NIS, or are you exporting
> > /var/yp/master.passwd?  There are a couple bugs in rpc.yppasswdd when
> > you are not exporting /etc/master.passwd.  Try the attached patch and
> > see if it helps.  Make backups of /etc/master.passwd and
> > /var/yp/master.passwd just in case :)
>
> Thanks a lot, I applied that patch,
> 
> but that did not seem to work. I get the same errors.
> Could this have something to do with pam?

rpc.yppasswdd doesn't use pam at all, so I doubt it.
 
So you are using /etc/master.passwd as your NIS passwd file, then?  Try
commenting out the daemon(0,0) call in yppasswdd_main.c, and run it
again.  If pwd_mkdb is failing, you should see an error message on
stderr.

If you are not using /etc/master.passwd, then my patch should never run
pwd_mkdb.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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