What system were you logged on as root? You must log on to the NIS server to use root successfully.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Solaris-Users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 30 Send Solaris-Users mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Solaris-Users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. This seems to be a good one - no solution so far (Emil Petkov) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:20:34 +0100 From: Emil Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Solaris-Users] This seems to be a good one - no solution so far To: Solaris-Users mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed So far nothing has helped me solve this (http://groups.google.nl/groups?th=940ec20262b0883) In Usenet i found one more thread describing similar situation but it ends up somewhere else (http://groups.google.com/groups?th=8163b41685555903) Summary: Problem: In NIS+ environment an attempt to change sume user's password as root on the root master server results in the following: # passwd <user> New password: Re-enter new Password: Permission denied In the system log the failure is reflected by the following message: <timestamp> <server> passwd[15660]: [ID 865497 user.error] Couldn't create a DH key-pair (len = 192, type = 0) Users are able to change their passwords themselves. Reactions and suggestions so far: To try # passwd -r nisplus <user> Result is the same: Enter root's password: New Password: Re-enter new Password: Permission denied However, then nothing shows up in the system log. Note: Later at a certain point it worked only on the root master server (I have the other box in the admin group as well but there it did not work) but I got the following messages: <tomestamp> master rpc.nispasswdd[256]: [ID 626782 daemon.error] too many failed attempts for user <timestamp> master passwd[26851]: [ID 404987 user.alert] NIS+ password invalid <timestamp> master passwd[26851]: [ID 404987 user.alert] NIS+ password invalid <timestamp> master passwd[26851]: [ID 893259 user.alert] Failover to old protocol <timestamp> master passwd[26851]: [ID 893259 user.alert] Failover to old protocol I restarted rpc.nispasswd and then it does not work at all again. Any further help will be highly appreciated. Regards, Emil Petkov ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users End of Solaris-Users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 30 ******************************************** _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
