From: Dirk Kleinhesselink (dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2006 - 19:58:44 EDT
Well I feel a little foolish as I stumbled upon the answer
in the man page for linux rpc.yppasswdd so quickly after
posting my question:
linux yppasswdd daemon assumes the directory for the passwd (and
shadow) source files as /etc unless specified with either -D (directory)
or -p (passwd file path) and/or -s (shadow file path) options.
I just needed to have the startup script run rpc.yppasswdd with
the -D option pointing to the directory where I have the yp
input source files.
Original question:
We're retiring our Tru64 servers and migrating services to linux.
I'm trying to migrate the NIS service to linux and I can get clients
to login, but I cannot change the password with yppasswd - it simply
says: "Error while changing the password".
I'm only serving up the passwd, group and netgroup maps and I don't
have shadow passwords and the passwords are the crypt (des) hash values.
yppasswdd is running - I'm trying to change the password on the NIS master
server. I wonder if it's some voodoo in pam or because I don't have
a shadow map ?
If anyone has any information/suggestions, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Dirk
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