SUMMARY: error message after issueing yppasswd

From: Ng Y. [DH] <Y.Ng_at_agipkco.com>
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 08:52:41 EDT
Ryan,

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

After changing the minimum number of days required  between  password changes
the problem has been solved.



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ryan A. Krenzischek [mailto:krenzischek@Encompasserve.org]
>Sent: 03 August 2004 14:31
>To: Ng Y. [DH]
>Subject: Re: error message after issueing yppasswd
>
>
>
>Does the username exist in /etc/passwd on the NIS master?
>Have you tried
>rebuilding the maps (eg. cd /var/yp && make)?  Is the account
>locked out?
>
>What does logins -ax -l YOUR_USERNAME show?  Is the account expired or
>locked out?
>
>Ryan
>
>On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Ng Y. [DH] wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> After issueing issueing the command yppassword and going
>through the subsequent steps a colleague of mine receives an
>error message:
>>
>>
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>> [sunhost1:~]$ yppasswd
>> Changing NIS account information for johndoe on sunhost1.
>> Please enter old password:
>> Changing NIS password for yng on ncocsun06.
>> Please enter new password:
>> Please retype new password:
>>
>> Error while changing the NIS password.
>> The NIS password has not been changed on sunhost1.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Whereas I am able to follow through the steps successfully
>after issueing yppasswd on the same host:
>>
>>
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>>
>> The NIS password has been changed on sunhost1.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Any suggestions are welcome.
>>
>>
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