CDE Screen lock and NIS Password failure, HPUX bug?

[Gram Ludlow]

My system is running HPUX 11.0 with NIS, also an 11.0 server.

I'm bound to the Master NIS server.

Today my NIS password expired while my screen was locked. I changed my password and unlocked the screen successfully. When I later locked it again, my new NIS password did not work.

The NIS server had the correct password, and I was bound to that same server. But for some reason the screen lock program cached my "old" password. Worse yet, it thought my password was expired again! So now I'm stuck in an endless loop, every time my scnreen locks I have to log into the NIS server, change my password to the old one, unlock X and change my "expired" passwrod again.

This seems like a pretty significant bug in CDE or HPUX. Has anyone else encountered this, and is there a patch to fix it? I'm pretty up to date as far as patches go.

Thanks!

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

This is probably fixed in the login cumulative patch. PHCO_19292for both 700 and 800
series systems at HP-UX 11.0.

is this installed ?

failing that what happens if you change the password when dtlogin is not running : use /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc stop/start.

How upto date ? swlist -l fileset | grep PH ?

[Gram Ludlow]

Here's the output from swlist:
swlist -l fileset | grep 1929
# PHCO_19292 1.0 cumulative patch
PHCO_19292.UX-CORE 1.0 OS-Core.UX-CORE
# PHKL_19291 1.0 mk_kernel:DLKM needed symbols/debug warnings
PHKL_19291.CORE2-KRN 1.0 OS-Core.CORE2-KRN

Looks like it's installed. I kept my worjstation from locking itself for about 30 minutes, and now it finally takes my new password. I wish it would get this automatically, it's a realy pain to have to wait that long (esp. when screen lock it set to 5 minutes).