NIS User account? or crypt issue?

[James Harrison]

A wild guess....

Im pushing the boat out a bit here, so dont flame me....

Is the nis master a redhat system?

Ive seen a problem where the nis master is Solaris and when the password is
changed on the Redhat system (workstation) the password is screwed up. Maybe
its got something to do with MD5 (on the redhat system) vs a passwd encrypted
password on the Solaris system. 

A passwd password is 8 characters long and an MD5 password is longer.

Change the password on the nis master or slave.

James

--- "Dege, Robert C." <robert.dege at ngc.com> wrote:

> 
> I have made some progress on my problem, however I don't feel any closer to
> a solution than before!
> I have been able to eliminate NIS as a possible problem.  This seems to be
> more of a authentication issue with login itself.  Here's what I did:
> 
> *) first, I took the NIS entry (ypmatch user passwd) && placed it into
> /etc/passwd.
> *) shut off NIS.  finger the username to verify that the local passwd entry
> is valid.
> *) I tried to login but was still getting password failures.
> 
> *) I then ran a crypt perl script & changed the encrypted passwd (passwd is
> timecard)
> *) I tried to login & was successful!  I could login.
> 
> *) I ran the crypt perl script again & changed the encrypted passwd (passwd
> is motivation)
> *) I tried to login & failed with a password incorrect again.
> 
> 
> # ./crypt.pl timecard
> qiI5rFufWzRBQ
> 
> # ./crypt.pl motivation
> ddo7t1js5n.pE
> 
> 
> -Rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:38 AM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: RE: NIS User account
> > 
> > 
> > can you "su - problematic_account" from root?
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dege, Robert C. [mailto:robert.dege at ngc.com]
> > > Sent: Mon, August 23, 2004 9:36 PM
> > > To: RedHat List (E-mail)
> > > Subject: NIS User account
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am need of assistance.  I have an NIS user account that can 
> > > logon to one
> > > machine, but is unable to logon to another.  Both NIS clients 
> > > share the   
> > > same NIS master, and are in the same domain.
> > > 
> > > I ran a ypmatch against the user, and NIS entry is identical 
> > > from both    
> > > machines.  A finger on the NIS account from both systems 
> > > shows identical 
> > > information, along with a valid shell.
> > > 
> > > Upon failed authentication, /var/log/messages shows a 
> > > PASSWORD INCORRECT
> > > message on system-2.  I also tried over ssh & telnet, but 
> > to no avail.
> > > 
> > > Both systems are redhat 7.2.
> > > 
> > > -Rob
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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