Problem with Password changes on Redhat machines

[John O'Loughlin]

Have you looked at your /etc/nsswitch.conf?

If they are nis clients you should have something like
passwd files nis
shadow files nis

in other words local files are dealt with first, before nis.

John
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:

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>
> I am currently trying to change the local root password on our Redhat
> machine but i get the error below. The strange thing about it is that the
> Unix machines have been can be changed with no problems at all, for some
> reason the Redhat machines seem to think they are a NIS client but this
> should not be the case. Does anyone have any ideas how i can stop this
> error?
>
> passwd
> Changing password for user root.
> New password:
> Retype new password:
> RPC: Can't encode arguments
> The password has not been changed on nisserver.
> passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew Bridgeman
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