Re: Can't change NIS+ password in NIS+ client

From: sharona (sallan1055_at_aol.com)
Date: 10/17/03 

Date: 16 Oct 2003 20:25:02 -0700

betulaz@yahoo.com (Vico) wrote in message news:<141bc274.0310122110.463cff05@posting.google.com>...
> Neil W Rickert <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> wrote in message news:<v3iib.1260$8x2.515559@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com>...
> > betulaz@yahoo.com (Vico) writes:
> >
> > >When I try to change password in NIS+ client, as follow
>
> > >...
> > >Permission denied
>
> > >In the log, I get the message,
>
> > >Oct 13 02:35:44 NIS+ client passwd[3706]: [ID 897924 user.error]
> > >Couldn't make a client handle to NIS+ password daemon
> >
> > passwd works by communicating with "rpc.nispasswdd" which should
> > be running on your main nis+ server. Perhaps you are blocking
> > this in a firewall?
>
> I forget to explain. There is still a NIS+ client, running Solaris
> 5.6, in my domain. "Passwd" works fine on the Solaris 5.6 NIS+ client,
> so I am sure rpc.nispasswdd is working on the NIS+ server.
>
> I search around the SunSolve, and I get this,
> sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108994
>
> It can fix '4727726 NIS+ user unable to change his/her passwd".
>
> Is the patch related with my probelm?
>
> THX

Hi,

What version of solaris are you running on the nis+ client that you
are unable to change a password on?

Sharona

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