Bug#204711: libc6: PAM broken, login impossible, possibly NIS related

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Sat, 09 Aug 2003 16:13:38 +0200,
Guus Sliepen wrote:
> I have a setup with NIS, and I have this in my nsswitch.conf:
> 
> passwd:         compat
> group:          compat
> shadow:         compat
> 
> After upgrading from 2.3.1-17 to 2.3.2-2, loging in failed for all NIS
> users, whether on the host running the NIS server or not. I changed the
> nsswitch file to contain:
>
> passwd:         db files nis
> group:          db files
> shadow:         db files nis
> 
> This allowed local users to log in again. However, remote users (whether
> in NIS or not, even root) can not log in with rlogin and ssh. Only telnet seems to
> work. This pretty much makes login servers completely useless (maybe
> severity should be critical).

I modified /etc/nsswitch as you wrote, but I can do rlogin/ssh (I
don't use NIS).  In order to isolate the problem, could you disable
to use NIS, and retest above?

Regards,
-- gotom