NIS & yppasswd

Title: Sébastien Roy
Hi AIXers,

I'm having a strange problem.  We have an AIX 5.3 server acting as a NIS server, and we have a bunch of Linux Mandrake server using NIS as a client for authentification.  The problem we have is if a user try to do a yppasswd to change the password, yppasswd say:

Error while changing the NIS password.
The NIS password has not been changed on Hesperus.

Just after the "Please retype new password:"    And the password is of course not changed and still using the old one.   With this problem we are unable to change password from a NIS client machine!

Anyone have an idea about that?

Thanks
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Sébastien Roy

Administrateur de Systèmes Senior / Senior System Administrator

PointPub Media Communications. - St-Eustache, Canada
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