Re: rpc.yppasswdd fails in 7.2?

> I've got a 7.2 box acting as NIS master, running rpc.yppasswdd. When
> remote users try to change their passwords they see:
>
> testing1# passwd mytest
> Changing NIS password for mytest
> Old Password:
> New Password:
> Retype New Password:
> passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
>
> On the server I get this in the logs:
> rpc.yppasswdd[36858]: pw_mkdb() failed
>
> I tracked the error message down to line 620 of yppasswdd_server.c, which
> lead me to libutil/pw_util.c.
>
> It looks like waitpid in mk_pwdb is returning the error "No child
> processes", which then makes mk_pwdb return an error. But the child does
> run and do it's job as expected. If you edit yppasswdd_server.c to ignore
> the return value of mk_pwdb, passwords are changed as expected.