adduser not working with nis
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| pam (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I have installed NIS on our servers (Ubuntu Server 10.04.3, all updates installed). Everything is working fine, except for one thing.
I added "nis" in /etc/pam.
password [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so obscure sha512 nis
Users can now change their passwords on any machine using passwd in the usual way. This works fine.
The problem arises if I try to change passwords for root or for a user as root. passwd asks for "NIS server root password:", but at that point I have to enter the root or the users(!) password, depending on which password I try to change. So I am not able to change passwords as root if I don't know the users password.
In addition, if I try to add a user with adduser, it is not possible to set the users password at all. At the stage where passwd is executed an entry for the new user in /etc/shadow exists, but is disabled with a "!" in the password hash field. It seems that nothing works for "NIS server root password:". I have tried the root password and simply "enter".
