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: >> >> >_______________________________________________________________ >_____________________ >> >> [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. >> >> >_______________________________________________________________ >_____________________ >> >> >> Whereas I am able to follow through the steps successfully >after issueing yppasswd on the same host: >> >> >_______________________________________________________________ >_____________________ >> >> >> The NIS password has been changed on sunhost1. >> >> >_______________________________________________________________ >_____________________ >> >> >> Any suggestions are welcome. >> >> >> Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. >Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. >> - Sun-Tzu, The Art Of War >> _______________________________________________ >> sunmanagers mailing list >> sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org >> http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Aug 3 08:53:03 2004
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