Re: what things can cause yppasswd failure?

2004-04-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 02:47:03PM -0700, Jin Guojun [NCS] wrote: Jin Guojun [NCS] wrote: We have experience very strange problem on using NIS over FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x. Some uses can change passwd where other users cannot. case 1:Use FreeBSD 5.1 as NIS server -- NIS client is a

Re: what things can cause yppasswd failure?

2004-04-21 Thread Jin Guojun [NCS]
The 5.2.1-R does not have yppasswdd coredump problem, so this could be something in 5.1 only. We have found what trigged this problem. When installing bash in a FreeBSD system, it is installed in /usr/local/bin. To make it consistent with other OS platforms, we made a link from /usr/local/bin to

what things can cause yppasswd failure?

2004-04-20 Thread Jin Guojun [NCS]
We have experience very strange problem on using NIS over FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x. Some uses can change passwd where other users cannot. case 1:Use FreeBSD 5.1 as NIS server -- NIS client is a FreeBSD 4.9 host I can change my passwd any time and any where, and most people cannot. If I change my

Re: what things can cause yppasswd failure?

2004-04-20 Thread Jin Guojun [NCS]
Jin Guojun [NCS] wrote: We have experience very strange problem on using NIS over FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x. Some uses can change passwd where other users cannot. case 1:Use FreeBSD 5.1 as NIS server -- NIS client is a FreeBSD 4.9 host I can change my passwd any time and any where, and most