Public bug reported:
I have installed NIS on our servers (Ubuntu Server 10.04.3, all updates
installed). Everything is working fine, except for one thing.
I added "nis" in /etc/pam.d/common-password:
password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure sha512 nis
Users can now change their passwords on any machine using passwd in the usual
way. This works fine.
The problem arises if I try to change passwords for root or for a user as root.
passwd asks for "NIS server root password:", but at that point I have to enter
the root or the users(!) password, depending on which password I try to change.
So I am not able to change passwords as root if I don't know the users
password.
In addition, if I try to add a user with adduser, it is not possible to set the
users password at all. At the stage where passwd is executed an entry for the
new user in /etc/shadow exists, but is disabled with a "!" in the password hash
field. It seems that nothing works for "NIS server root password:". I have
tried the root password and simply "enter".
** Affects: pam (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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adduser not working with nis
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