Bug 24109

Summary:	passwd + nis
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gerald Teschl <gt>
Component:	passwd	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Gerald Teschl 2001-01-16 13:31:29 UTC

Chaning the password on a yp client does not work.
Passwd asks for the old/new passord as usual and then
issues "passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully"
but the password is unchanged.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-16 16:12:44 UTC

Is the server running yppasswdd?  This appears to be the only standard method of
changing a password on an NIS server, and it is the method the client built into
pam_unix uses.

The client will also need to have "nis" added to the passwd line in
/etc/pam.d/system-auth which includes pam_unix for this to work.  Versions of
authconfig in Raw Hide .  A bug in pam_unix which caused it to always attempt to
change a user's password via NIS (even if the user's information was in /etc)
should be fixed in Raw Hide.

Please reopen this bug if you find that updating these packages does not fix the
problem.

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-16 16:13:21 UTC

Eep.  Versions of authconfig in Raw Hide will automatically add the "nis" option
if NIS is configured.

Comment 3 Gerald Teschl 2001-01-17 18:38:46 UTC

Yes, I forgot to check the presence of the nis option (thought I did...).
However, nevertheless an an error should be desplayed in this
case!

Comment 4 Gerald Teschl 2001-01-17 18:39:36 UTC

Yes, I forgot to check the presence of the nis option (thought I did...).
However, nevertheless an an error should be displayed in this
case!