I guess you just have to add +:::::: in /etc/passwd; +:::::::: in /etc/shadow and it will be okay.
Your sincerely, Huegesh Marimuthu On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Peter Nome wrote: > > I've been running into a problem with NIS on Debian -- everything looks like > it should be working, but logins fail with pam saying "user unknown". > > Here's an example -- I can change the password, so clearly NIS is working, > yet at the end the login fails: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# yppasswd student > Changing NIS account information for student on graywhale. > Please enter root password: > Changing NIS password for student on graywhale. > Please enter new password: > Please retype new password: > > The NIS password has been changed on graywhale. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# su student > su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. > (Ignored) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ > > Here's what my auth.log says when I try ssh jellyfish -l student: > > Aug 20 01:02:51 jellyfish ssh(pam_unix)[21143]: check pass; user unknown > Aug 20 01:02:51 jellyfish ssh(pam_unix)[21143]: authentication failure; > logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= rhost=graywhale > > I saw someone post the identical problem to debian-users (and receive no > reply), so I guess it affects a number of people. > > Oh, and I should mention: I had this working! Late July, after the last nis > upgrade. I did some other upgrade, no idea what, and got the problem. ypcat > passwd and all kinds of other NIS map commands work fine. > > This is an updated Debian sid running nis 3.9-6.3. I'm setting this up for a > high school lab (remotely), and we're all ready to go aside from this. > > Please cc me -- any suggestions much appreciated! I'm happy to suppy more > information. > > Cheers, > Peter > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
