SUMMARY: NIS+ User Credential Problem

From: Colin J. Wynne (cwynne@brutus.mts.jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 06 1997 - 09:53:31 CST


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One of my users, after a username changed, kept getting the error

        chkey: insufficent permission to update credentials.

when running `chkey -p'.

I am not sure what actually fixed the problem, but I did the
following:

  1) nischown her dredentials in cred.org_dir to her cname,
  2) nischmod o+m on her credentials, and
  3) killed and restarted all the NIS+ stuff.

Now it works. If it was the permissions, I don't know why they were
messed up in the first place. Only time it's ever happened. But at
least it works now.

Thanks to David Robson <robbo@satech.net.au> for a quick response
which prompted the above steps.

CJW

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