On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:04:37AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > 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
I see. You wouldn't say it was shadow passwd related? > >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 Will do that then. > 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 hmm, how do I check whether I have pam_unix or not? I'm on a SPARC Woody system, might it be SPARC port releted? Cheers, /ChJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
