Hallo, We have a NIS-Master running under HP-UX and a linux-client with RedHat 7.0 running PAM without shadow. After I was asked to change my password last week by a HP-machine I later on could not log on to the linux-machine any longer. Not with the new neither with the old password. After I changed it back to the old one everything worked fine again. All our users have the same problem. You can log in sucessfully until your asked to change your password. Even the output of "ypcat -k passwd" is the same on the NIS-master as on the linux-client. Some config-info: ------------------------------------------ # /etc/nsswitch.conf passwd: files nis shadow: files nis # but is not used here... group: files nis ----------------------------------------- #/etc/pam.d/login #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_unix.so session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so ------------------------------------------ /etc/passwd has +::::::: at the end Has anybody an idea? Thanks in advance Thorsten