Small? problem with NIS/YP

[Tony Molloy]

Hi All,

When I use yppasswd to change a users password it seems to work OK. The 
password is changed in the password source file. However if I try to 
login with the new password I can't, but the old password still works. 

So it appears that the password in the active password database isn't 
being updated. This is confirmed because if I restart ypserv then the new 
password becomes active.

I see the following error message in /var/log/messages

ypserv: refused connect from 127.0.0.1:791 to procedure ypproc_clear (,;0)

Now I've tried this with iptables disabled and with no hosts.allow/deny 
file so it doesn't appear to be a problem with either of those. My 
securenets file contains the lines 

#  Always allow access for localhost
255.0.0.0		127.0.0.1

I run ypserv and yppasswdd on specific ports 801/803 to allow them through 
the firewall.

Any ideas.

Thank's 
Tony

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Tony Molloy.

Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick