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
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: authconfig
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-23 01:38 UTC by Marc MERLIN
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-12-07 12:39:02 UTC
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Description Marc MERLIN 2002-07-23 01:38:15 UTC 
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 2003-11-08 01:24:03 UTC 
Has this been resolved?
Comment 2 Chuck Slivkoff 2003-11-08 01:41:39 UTC 
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 12:39:02 UTC 
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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