Bug 69546 – When you select nis in authconfig, you can't change the local root password

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Bug 69546 - When you select nis in authconfig, you can't change the local root password

Summary:	When you select nis in authconfig, you can't change the local root password

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	authconfig (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Tomas Mraz
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Reported:	2002-07-22 21:38 EDT by Marc MERLIN
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:44 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-12-07 07:39:02 EST
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Description Marc MERLIN 2002-07-22 21:38:15 EDT

Description of Problem:
authconfig changes /etc/pam.d/system-auth as such:
password    sufficient    /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5
shadow nis

This works for changing user passwords but this prevents me from using my
local root password since it tries to change it over nis.

I removed "nis" on the password line and I'm changing my user passwords with
yppasswd.
This works fine, but authconfig will blow away my change eventually, and if I
tell authconfig not to use NIS, then it turns YP off altogether...

Comment 1 Chuck Slivkoff 2003-11-07 20:24:03 EST

Has this been resolved?

Comment 2 Chuck Slivkoff 2003-11-07 20:41:39 EST

I just confirmed (on 7.2 & 7.3) that this is still broken.

/usr/bin/passwd doesn't know to call yppasswd to change NIS user
passwords.

Any ETA on a fix?

Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2004-12-07 07:39:02 EST

This is fixed in current releases in case you don't have root account
in the NIS. The remaining issue is bug 115309.

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