In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up >with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on >a NIS client host. > >If I login as root on the NIS client host, and try su - joe >(assuming joe is in the NIS master host users) I get this >behaviour: > >su - joe >su: Authentication service cannt retrieve authentication info. >(Ignored)
That sounds suspiciously much like a PAM message >but I het the user Joe account, with the right UID/GID, the >right username translation from UID, the right group name >translation from GID... >I wonder what is wrong? How do I "debug" this to track down my error? Check /etc/pam.d/su and /etc/pam.d/login etc Perhaps you have only pam_pwdb loaded; I don't think it uses getpwnam() but rather reads /etc/passwd directly, which isn't going to work. You need pam_unix Mike. -- "Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." - R.D. Lang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
