SUMMARY: NIS & Enhanced Sec: Can't rewrite protected password entry

From: <Rljohnst_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:06:03 -0400

In my original posting, I described how I was using NIS and Enhanced Security
and that the error "Can't rewrite protected password entry" was being
generated whenever a NIS user logged in. Thanks to Jonathan.Buchanan_at_ska.com
who pointed out the following:

  - The file /etc/auth/system/files must contain entries for
     prpasswd and prpasswd:t. We have added them like this:

  /var/yp/src/prpasswd:\
          :f_type=r:f_mode#0660:f_owner=auth:f_group=auth:\
          :chkent:
  /var/yp/src/prpasswd\:t:\
          :f_type=r:f_mode#0660:f_owner=auth:f_group=auth:\
          :chkent:

Adding these lines to /etc/auth/system/files and setting the prpasswd file
with the specified access permissions allowed logins to complete
successfully.

Thanks to all the others who provided their input,
Rob
Received on Mon May 13 1996 - 19:42:06 NZST

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