Unable to change NIS account password using yppasswd or password

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I've changed the location for the passwd, group, host auto.master auto.users to /etc/nis. Everything works fine except for changing password. I am not currently using securenet or the password adjunct.

Started 2014-03-27T07:04:40+00:00 by

Alex Cervania

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27 March 2014 9:51 AM

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Alex,

Can you add some details about which version of RHEL you are using and what you are using as your NIS server?

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