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# 1  
Old 10-13-2003
can't change password
I have just upgraded one on my solaris 8 machine to solaris 9 the upgraded went fine and user have
loging on successfully and authenticated user logon on nis successfully.

My Nis master runs on solaris 8.
my solaris 9 machine is configure as a Nis client and authenticated user successfully but when user try to change password like

passwd hassan2
Enter existing login password:

ther correct existing password was type but the following error message was displayed

passwd: Sorry, wrong passwd
Permission denied

users are able to change password successfully on other solaris 8 machine using the authenticating to the same NIS master.

Can you help? please
Thanks in Advance
# 2  
Old 10-13-2003
Please verify with the "ypwhich" command that you indeed use the correct Nis-server.

Try changing the password using "yppasswd" command.

Regs David

It sounds very familiar to me about the exact problem, I just cannot remember it anymore.
# 3  
Old 10-13-2003
I have verified that user are authenticating to my NIS master, ypwhich confired this

I also tried yppasswd hassan2

but still receiving the same error message
yppasswd: Sorry, wrong passwd
Permission denied

if I su - to root then tried to change password
I am able to change password successfully

But individual users should be abe to change password themself without su to root, this can be done on my other solaris 8 machine but not on my new solaris 9

Can you help? please
Thanks in Advance
# 4  
Old 10-13-2003
Hassan,

That you are able to change it using root is quiet normal. If I am correct you have root always local !!
Therefor you should always be able to addapt this. Can you please post the last NIS-lines from your /etc/passwd. Maybe something changed here.
Also a truss or tusc of the passwd command might be a bit more specific in what exactly goes wrong.

Regs David
# 5  
Old 10-13-2003
yes my root is set localy to the machine.

the last line of my /etc/passwd file is

+::::::


truss passwd produce the following output when run as normal users

truss: cannot trace set-id or unreachable object file: /bin/passwd
# 6  
Old 10-13-2003
Hhm, and if you run truss as root and then change a users passwd.
So :

# passwd user1

Regs David
# 7  
Old 10-13-2003
Please do a man on "yppasswdd" Yes indeed two dees Smilie

It points you to "/etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs " and much more. It might be very wyse to look at that.

Regs David
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