Changing password for NIS user fails with "Failed preliminary check by password service"
Issue
- Changing password for NIS user from NIS server or NIS client gives this error with "yppasswd" -
NIS password could not be changed.
passwd: Failed preliminary check by password service
- passwd,shadow and group files lies under /var/yp
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
- ypserv-2.19-3
- yp-tools-2.9-0.1
- ypbind-1.19-8.el5
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