Problem changing local root password

[Lunt, Nick]

Hi Andrew,

if your sure that's it's not a NIS problem then I dont know what it could be.
Is the root user in the passwd file on the host your logged onto ?

The passwd command used to have a -N option which is not available in my RHEL4 boxes, but it may be on your WS3 box.

Good luck,
Nick .


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com
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> Hi Nick,
> 
> There is a root user in the NIS database, The Sun system that 
> is the NIS
> server creates this entry when the tables are updated.
> But in /etc/nsswitch.conf on the linux system the order of 
> the lookup is
> configured as FILES first, then NIS
> When on the linux system i cd into the homefolder of root 
> (using cd ~) it
> goes to /root and not / as the root user in NIS has.
> 
> All this is as it should be, the only thing not working right 
> is changing
> root's local password.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew Bridgeman
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> Hi Andrew,
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com
> 
> > We are currently trying to change the local root password 
> on 40 Linux
> > Redhat WS Version 3 machines but we keep getting the error 
> below. Can
> > anyone help with this? Has anyone seen this before?
> >
> > [root at linux etc]# passwd
> > Changing password for user root.
> > New password:
> > Retype new password:
> > RPC: Can't encode arguments
> > The password has not been changed on sunnisserver.
> > passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
> > [root at linux etc]#
> 
> Im guessing here, but have you set the root user to use NIS ?
> Try yppasswd if so.
> 
> That's about all I can offer I'm afraid,
> Nick .
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