I was running NIS and yppasswdd was started. About a week later after trying to change my password with passwd I still received the same response. It finally dawned on me that to change the password I have to use the command, yppasswd. It worked. Thanks for the response.
Avram On 10 May 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 20:25, Avi Aumick wrote: > > every time I try to change the password for an account I get the following > > error: > > RPC: Can't encode arguments > > The password has not been changed on bagel.m-issues.org. > > passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service > > > > What is wrong?? > > Is your NIS server running yppasswdd? I'm guessing not. > > -- ----------- You know you're getting old when you talk about what you've done, rather than what you're going to do. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
