Greetings all, I'm trying to get NIS up and running for my ltsp setup(b/c I have some "fat-clients") and I'm having a bit of trouble. I can create the users using useradd, then run make in /var/yp. No biggie. However, when I try to give the user a password, or if I want to change the password, this is what I get: $passwd test Changing password for user test New password: Retype new password: RPC: Can't encode arguments The password has not been changed on jmullman.lib.gasou.edu. passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
I'm guessing this is because of me using shadow passwords. Then again, the How-To is only four years old and using software which has been outdated just as long... which as a side note is quite interesting as I would imagine it's a fairly widely used service. Anyway, I'm using RH7.2 apt-get'ed to a fairly secure, stable state. Any adivice/help would is greatly appreciated. Thanks -- James Mitchell Ullman Technical Support Specialist I Zach S. Henderson Library Georgia Southern University http://www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/jmullman Office ph# 912-681-0161
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