Bug 16815

Summary:	userpasswd doesn't work with NIS
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Per Starbäck <per.starback>
Component:	usermode	Assignee:	Martin Bacovsky <mbacovsk>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	notting, tomc
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHEL 4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Per Starbäck 2000-08-23 18:31:19 UTC

userpasswd doesn't work if you get your password with NIS.
Maybe it's not supposed to work then?  I expected it to use
yppasswd then.

Comment 1 Tom Cross 2001-02-19 17:16:15 UTC

This is a problem.  We have a bunch of NIS users here and when they have to/want
to change their passwords it's always a pain.

Is there another way that they can change their passwords besides dropping them
to a command line?

Comment 2 Stefan Schwandter 2003-07-02 19:54:16 UTC

userpasswd still doesn't seem to work with NIS in redhat 9.
any chance that this will get fixed?

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-07 17:54:26 UTC

Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still
running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a
current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable.
Some information on which option may be right for you is available at
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do
want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks.
Please check if this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core
release. If so, please change the product and version to match, and
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provided. Note that any bug still open against Red Hat Linux on will be
closed as 'CANTFIX' on September 30, 2006. Thanks again for your help.

Comment 4 Per Starbäck 2006-08-15 08:35:01 UTC

It is working nowadays, at least as of Fedora Core 4.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-15 15:42:08 UTC

Closing, then. Thanks!