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Re: yppasswd [Sl 4.3]
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Art Wildman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:18:41 -0400
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Mark Nelson wrote:
> That is not correct, you don't need to run yppasswdd on the clients, 
> rpc.yppasswdd must be running on the NIS/yp master not on a yp client 
> .  It sounds like the above howto is wrong, if the user has a 
> rpc.passwdd running on the client it MAY cause this type of behavior 
> to happen.
>
> This is according to Managing NFS and NIS  Hal Stern O'Reilly 1992 
> (ISBN  0-937175-75-7) see page 60
>>
>
> I have rpc.yppasswdd running on my NIS master and no other host within 
> the domain.
>
>  

You are correct, something didn't look right when I posted that from 
home & couldn't test on my NIS setup at work. I notified the author if 
you want to follow up... 
http://www.openfree.org/forums/showthread.php?p=127305#post127305 -Art

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