Password policy restrictions when changing passwords for NIS users using yppasswd
Issue
- Normal NIS user password change using yppasswd fails if it does not meet the password requirements.
- NIS users cannot change password using yppasswd as it fails with errors like "The password must have at least 6 characters" and "The password must have both upper and lowercase letters, or non-letters"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- NIS Server
- NIS Client
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