On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 7:30:39 PM UTC, davidrami...@gmail.com wrote:

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:46:00 PM UTC-5, santiag...@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, February 8, 2002 3:35:07 PM UTC-3, Jeffery Smith wrote:

I know others have had this problem, but I can't find a solution

anywhere. When I try to change my password using 'yppassd' I get the

following error:

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[smith@garfield smith]$ yppasswd

Changing NIS account information for smith on zeus.

Please enter old password:

Changing NIS password for smith on zeus.

Please enter new password:

Please retype new password:

Error while changing the NIS password.

The NIS password has not been changed on zeus.

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In this senario:

garfield = NIS Client (my workstation)

zeus = NIS Server

I have tried stoping 'ypserv' and then running it on a console with

'ypserv -d' to see the messages, but I don't see anything helpful at

all. This appears to be partially working because it successfully

reads and checks my old password.

I checked rpcinfo and it looks fine to me:

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[root@zeus yp]# rpcinfo -p | grep yp

100007 2 udp 632 ypbind

100007 1 udp 632 ypbind

100007 2 tcp 635 ypbind

100007 1 tcp 635 ypbind

100004 2 udp 944 ypserv

100004 1 udp 944 ypserv

100004 2 tcp 947 ypserv

100004 1 tcp 947 ypserv

100009 1 udp 699 yppasswdd

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I can 'ypcat' my password file with no trouble. In fact, all my NIS

maps are working fine. I just can't change any passwords.

It may be interesting to note that on the NIS server (zeus) I can't

use the 'passwd' command either.

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[root@zeus yp]# passwd smith

Changing password for user smith

New password:

Retype new password:

RPC: Can't encode arguments

The password has not been changed on zeus.

passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service

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It looks to me like this has something to do with RPC, but I really am

clueless.

All help is greatly appreciated!

Jeffery Smith

sm...@skycomputers.com

Some years later..

How I get to change the user password with yppasswd for username as root;

1. Edit the /etc/yp/shadow and remove the password field of the user.

2. Save and close.

3. Run yppasswd username again.

Example:

If I were to change the password of henryk, I would do as follows;

1. Change the entry for the user at /etc/yp/shadow

henryk:dsdkljHjshd3KsaEd:51265::::::

to

henryk::51265::::::

2. Save and close.

3. Run yppasswd henryk

Changing NIS account information for henryk on myserver.

Please enter root password:

Changing NIS password for henryk on myserver.

Please enter new password:

Please retype new password:

The NIS password has been changed on myserver.

Hope this helps someone out there.

As this fails silently (no traces on /var/log/messages, /var/log/scure) of what went wrong, I resulted here...

In my particular case, the user to have its password changed had it actually disabled inside /etc/shadow such as:
johndoe:!!:16050:0:120:7::17896:

So as per santiag's hint I edited the shadow file (vipw -s) and removed the !! signs... then yppasswd worked as needed.

Just my 1 cent here...

Hi there,

I've had the same issue just now and we fond that our new NIS server did not have correctly configured YPPWDDIR in the /etc/default/nis and was not pointing at our passwd file. For that reason it was silently failing.

Best, Mat

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On 15/02/2021 17.52, Mateusz Bieniek wrote:

On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at 7:30:39 PM UTC, davidrami...@gmail.com wrote:

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:46:00 PM UTC-5, santiag...@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, February 8, 2002 3:35:07 PM UTC-3, Jeffery Smith wrote:

I know others have had this problem, but I can't find a solution

anywhere. When I try to change my password using 'yppassd' I get the

following error:

...

I've had the same issue just now and we fond that our new NIS server
did not have correctly configured YPPWDDIR in the /etc/default/nis and
was not pointing at our passwd file. For that reason it was silently
failing.

Mateusz,

haven't you noticed that you are replying to a thread from 2013?


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On 2/15/21 8:52 AM, Mateusz Bieniek wrote:

Dude...

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:46:00 PM UTC-5, santiag...@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, February 8, 2002 3:35:07 PM UTC-3, Jeffery Smith wrote:

Really? A 19 year old thread?


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On 24.02.2021 at 17:57, Johann Beretta scribbled:

On 2/15/21 8:52 AM, Mateusz Bieniek wrote:

Dude...

On Thursday, May 16, 2013 4:46:00 PM UTC-5, santiag...@gmail.com
wrote:

On Friday, February 8, 2002 3:35:07 PM UTC-3, Jeffery Smith wrote:

Really? A 19 year old thread?

See, this is why most of us filter out anything coming in through
Google Groups. ;)


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With respect,
= Aragorn =

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