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- From: sysadmin@exnet.co.uk (System admin)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: SunOS 4.1 / 4.1.1 / 4.1.1U_1 /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd doesn't work.
- Message-ID: <C180EA.JH@exnet.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:18:08 GMT
- Organization: ExNet Systems Ltd Public Access News, London, UK
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- We have a problem.
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- We run NIS on our public-access system. (This in itself is not quite
- the problem. B^>)
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- We run a network of Sun 3s with 4.1.1 and 4.1.1U_1.
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- We can't get passwd to work correctly to change the NIS password (ie
- setting a non-local password).
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- Tracing yppasswdd to see what's happening, with the 4.1.1U_1 version
- the program opens the passwd file twice when the second time it should
- have opened the adjunct file, so it thinks the quoted old password is
- bad and refuses to store the new one.
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- Tracing the 4.1.1 version (and I've even tried the 4.1 version),
- yppasswdd gets a SIGSEGV a little after creating the adjunct ptmp file,
- so it doesn't get to create the new entry and subsequent attempts to
- set passwords inform us that the password file is `busy' (the .ptmp
- file is there albeit size zero).
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- Can we fix this?
-
- Damon
-