From: Pavic, Aleksander (Aleksander.Pavic@t-systems.com)
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 07:12:08 EST
Hello List,
I noticed that our NIS System doesn't allow a user to change his own
password.
Google showes me a Summary from this list that says that rpc.yppasswdd
is needed for that.
After some reading I noticed one line in /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart:
-- if [ "$master" = "$hostname" -a X$YP_SERVER = "XTRUE" ]; then -- You have to know that the `hostname` of this machine contains only capital characters. The line above make sure that yppasswdd, ypxfrd and ypupdatedd will never start on machines with only capital characters in their hostname, since $hostname is translated to a lowercase string and $master is not. I know that I can fix this very easy with one additional line, but a few years ago sun tells us that we will lose support for that system if we change anything within the sun startup scripts. So what should I do now? Is there anyone who knows how to handle that Problem without changing the hostname and without loosing support? Maybe Casper? Regards, Aleks _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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