I checked the link that Philip gave and the patch at the beginning
worked for 14.04 when I recompiled the nis package from source. My users
can finally change their passwords! The patch is
--- nis-3.17.orig/yp-tools-2.9/src/yppasswd.c 2013-09-03 12:08:35.0
-0400
+++ ./yppasswd.c
As I looked back at everything I did before I see that I had tested the
updates in Virtualbox using the 32 bit Xubuntu releases. For the 32 bit
releases the segmentation violation began when I updated the client from
12.10 to 13.04. I reran the same experiment in virtualbox last night
and still go
It was whatever was available in July. I installed two XUbuntu 12.04.?
LTS systems under VirtualBbx and confirmed then that it worked before
making the bug report. I also updated both virtual systems through 12.10
and 13.04. As I recall, the problem began when the client system was
updated to 13.04
A quick additional thought...I may have started with the original
release of 12.04 LTS from a disk I made in April 2012 and not made any
updates before I did the VirtualBox experiment. I may try the same thing
again today if I have time.
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I should add, I've purged and reinstalled/reconfigured package "nis" on
both the server(s) and clients a number of times but still get the same
behavior.
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Public bug reported:
Sample output from a client (output is identical if run on the server):
$ yppasswd
Changing NIS account information for on .
Please enter old password:
Changing NIS password for on .
Please enter new password:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$
This setup worked fine with