Password doesnt decrpt

[DedeMole]

I am new to being a system administrator and having lots of silly problems. I have user accounts setup using NIS+ (or so I think). When I go to logon as a user the first message I get after putting in the password is

"password does not decrpyt secret key (type-192-0) for unix.112@my-student.com"

I then click to the ok and everything seems to be running ok..... Should I worry about this message or fix it. And if I should fix it how.....

thanks for the help

 

[mattrumik]

hmm, heard about man pages?
if not yet installed on the machine, try to get the man-pages AND answer books installed at least on one machine)
otherwise use

http://www.google.de

or whatever:

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mansec?1M+nisclient

there are many other good "man" pages on the net

if that does not help, ask again

matt

 

[DedeMole]

matt,
I checked out the site you gave me, and thanks but it doesn't help me with my password problem... I think that my password isn't in the right format for NIS+, but I don't know what the right format is.... Right now my password is student01 --- I just don't know what to change it to in order for the server to be happy.... Any idea's???

 

[mattrumik]

here the details of the real (?) answer:
copy and paste Your question into google:
decrypt secret key (type-192-0)
(correct bad spelling )

and You get the link:

http://www.ycp.edu/infores/helpdesk/chkeyProcedure.htm

does that solve Your problem?

matt

PS:
"google has (nearly) all the answers,
one has to find the question, though."
(in your case this was not too difficult).

 

[DedeMole]

PROBLEM fixed hurray (and a 1 cheers).... My problem had to do with the fact I'm using NIS+... I had users on the server BEFORE the server was a nis+ server, so the users login password and nisplus password were out of sync.... Man only 2 weeks to figure this out... Very simple fix:
After you login as the user update the NIS+ credentials:
/usr/bin/keylogin
The user then types in the nisplus password (might just be nisplus). Then the user needs to sync the passwords up..
/usr/bin/chkey -p
The user then types in the nisplus password again and then their login password (the password typed in when logging into the system).
And it works!!!! Thanks to everyone for their help....