Thanks to
cyril@corp.cirrus.com
holzb@vkm.com
cathy@mercury.stm.com
asim@psa.pencom.com
dengland@ivac.com
the problem was because rpc.yppasswdd not running.
Thanks
Ashfaq
My original question was :
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently setup NIS with Solaris 2.5.1.
>
> NIS directory is not /etc. It is on a different
> file system.
>
> Everything works fine except
>
> when you try to change a users password with either
> yppasswd or passwd command, it asks the old passwd and
> the new passwd twice but give error saying
>
> "passwd: couldn't create client"
>
> I have no idea why I am getting this error. Any help will be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ashfaq
>
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