Problem changing passwds

Thanks to

cyril@corp.cirrus.com

holzb@vkm.com

cathy@mercury.stm.com

asim@psa.pencom.com

dengland@ivac.com

the problem was because rpc.yppasswdd not running.

Thanks

Ashfaq

My original question was :

>

> Hi,

>

> Recently setup NIS with Solaris 2.5.1.

>

> NIS directory is not /etc. It is on a different

> file system.

>

> Everything works fine except

>

> when you try to change a users password with either

> yppasswd or passwd command, it asks the old passwd and

> the new passwd twice but give error saying

>

> "passwd: couldn't create client"

>

> I have no idea why I am getting this error. Any help will be

> appreciated.

>

> Thanks

>

> Ashfaq

>

[1889 byte] By [CodeProf.com] at [2007-12-25 12:00:00]