From: Kamal Bhusal (kbhusal@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 - 13:13:12 EDT
I am sorry guys, I NIS master is Redhat Enterprise 5 and clients are
solaris, debian, freebsd, Redhat
On 6/29/07, Kamal Bhusal <kbhusal@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *Managers,
> I tried to change the password for a user but it failed. I believe someone
> might have faced similar kind of problem,
>
>
> When I tried to change a password as a normal user*, I got the following
> error
>
> [kamal@s00 ~]$ passwd
> Changing password for user kamal.
> passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
> [kamal@s00 ~]$
>
> [kamal@s00 ~]$ yppasswd
> Changing NIS account information for kamal on s00.
> Please enter old password:
> Changing NIS password for kamal on s00.
> Please enter new password:
> Please retype new password:
> Error while changing the NIS password.
> The NIS password has not been changed on s00.
>
> [kamal@s00 ~]$
>
> *As Admin*
>
> [root@s00 etc]# yppasswd kamal
> Changing NIS account information for kamal on s00.
> Please enter root password:
> Changing NIS password for kamal on s00.
> Please enter new password:
> Please retype new password:
> Error while changing the NIS password.
> The NIS password has not been changed on s00.
>
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