On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:39:09PM +0530, Arvind Marathe wrote: > Hi all, > i have a debian etch system, which is a nfs client machine. Since yesterday, i > am not able to login using my nfs username and passwd on tty1, tty2, tty3 etc. "nfs username" ? I suspect you mean NIS username? > It gives the error: "checkpassword: wrong password." It accepts root passwd on > these. However i can login to xdm (runlevel:5, tty7) using nfs username and > passwd. Why is this happening? (Could these be some problem with fgetty?) As far as I can see from "apt-cache show fgetty", it only supports authentication against /etc/passwd - i.e. against the local machine. Hence root would work but non-local users would not. Was fgetty installed yesterday by any chance? > ps: Please also include my mail id in the reply as am not subscribed > to the list Done. For now. It is considered good netiquette to subscribe before posting. Otherwise you might miss out on the reply ... -- Karl E. Jorgensen karl@jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols
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