It's been ages, but if memory serves, using shadow passwords along with
NIS tended to be problematic.
If you do use a shadow password file, you can use pwunconv to generate a
proper password file from it. (You can recreate the shadow file
afterwards by means of the pwconv command.)
If that still doesn't resolve te issue, try prepending the root record
in the passwd file by a + sign.
Kind regards,
Herta
Russell Harrison wrote:
It could be a problem with shadow passwords? Verify you have the correct
version of shadow-utils installed. Thats just a shot in the dark, BTW.
On 3/16/06, Lunt, Nick <Nick.Lunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm as stuck as you are now then Andrew :)
Anyone else got any ideas ?
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Subject: RE: Problem changing local root password
Yes, the root user is in the passwd file on the machine i am
logging into.
Unfortunately i cannot see the -N option when i do a man on
passwd either.
Regards
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Hi Andrew,
if your sure that's it's not a NIS problem then I dont know
what it could
be.
Is the root user in the passwd file on the host your logged onto ?
The passwd command used to have a -N option which is not
available in my
RHEL4 boxes, but it may be on your WS3 box.
Good luck,
Nick .
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew.Bridgeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: 16 March 2006 14:09
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Subject: RE: Problem changing local root password
Hi Nick,
There is a root user in the NIS database, The Sun system that
is the NIS
server creates this entry when the tables are updated.
But in /etc/nsswitch.conf on the linux system the order of
the lookup is
configured as FILES first, then NIS
When on the linux system i cd into the homefolder of root
(using cd ~) it
goes to /root and not / as the root user in NIS has.
All this is as it should be, the only thing not working right
is changing
root's local password.
Regards
Andrew Bridgeman
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Hi Andrew,
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew.Bridgeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We are currently trying to change the local root password
on 40 Linux
Redhat WS Version 3 machines but we keep getting the error
below. Can
anyone help with this? Has anyone seen this before?
[root@linux etc]# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New password:
Retype new password:
RPC: Can't encode arguments
The password has not been changed on sunnisserver.
passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
[root@linux etc]#
Im guessing here, but have you set the root user to use NIS ?
Try yppasswd if so.
That's about all I can offer I'm afraid,
Nick .
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