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yppasswd update fails

Created by dave. Last edited by dave, 17 years and 32 days ago. Viewed 5,526 times. #1
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Problem

The problems I was experiencing was that any attempt to change a user password was met with:

[root@vlamp temp]# passwd tempuser
Changing password for user tempuser.
New password:
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
Retype new password:
RPC: Can't encode arguments
The password has not been changed on vlamp.
or
[root@vlamp temp]# yppasswd tempuser
Changing NIS account information for tempuser on vlamp.
Please enter root password:
Changing NIS password for tempuser on vlamp.
Please enter new password:
Please retype new password:
Error while changing the NIS password.
The NIS password has not been changed on vlamp.

Solution

Eventually I got around this problem by ensuring that users are always added with a default password:

# useradd -p password username
After this is done, yppasswd works successfully.
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