yppasswd update fails
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.
[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
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