In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:09:03AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Brent Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I'm running the 'woody' distro on a PC with Linux 2.4.12-ac6. I
>> >installed the 'nis' debian package, and followed the nis.debian.howto
>> >that comes with that package. The setup went smoothly, and ypbind was
>> >able to contact the NIS server. ypcat works. However, NIS users are
>> >unable to authenticate to the system using SSH.
>>
>> Did you setup /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/passwd correctly?
>
>
>My /etc/nsswitch.conf says:
>
>passwd: files ldap
>group: files ldap
>shadow: files ldap
Right, that's the problem. You didn't read /usr/share/doc/nis/
nis.debian.howto.gz did you, it's all spelled out in there.
In particular, /etc/nsswitch.conf needs to read:
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
netgroup: nis
Mike.
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