paaswd: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
Dear Debian users!
Kindly ask for your help re. following problem (I am rather new in this buisness). Here at the
college I want to set up a server -client system using nis. So far things work, but when it comes
to changing passwords for any user, say user funny, as follows
funny@acer153:~$ yppasswd
Changing password for funny
(current) UNIX password:
passwd: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
The subsequent configuration seems to be all right -- Any help is appreciated, Alexander.
NIS - Server configuration:
linux:~# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.
passwd: files nis
group: files nis
shadow: files nis
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files
netgroup: nis
in the file "/etc/default/nis" I set "NISSERVER=master" and "NISCLIENT=false"
then "/etc/init.d/nis restart"
finally,
linux:~# ps -ef | grep yp
root 15916 1 0 11:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypserv
root 15917 1 0 11:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd -D /etc -e chsh
root 15921 1 0 11:05 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.ypxfrd
so, everything seems to work here.
For the NIS -CLIENT:
funny@acer153:~$ cat /etc/yp.conf
ypserver linux.school.com
in /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow I added "+::::::", "+:::", and "+::::::::" respectively.
the file /etc/nsswitch is identical to that at the server .
Finally I checked
funny@acer153:~$ ypcat -h linux passwd
funny:x:1004:1004:funny3,,,:/home/funny3:/bin/bash
and
funny@acer153:~$ ps -ef | grep yp
root 2529 1 0 11:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind
root 2530 2529 0 11:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind
root 2531 2530 0 11:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind
root 2532 2530 0 11:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind
so, everthing seems to be working, user funny can log on the client but not change his password.
Please what did I do wrong?
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