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



At Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:17:41 +0200,
Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:22:39PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > Hi,
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 02:27:48PM -0400, Terry Katz wrote:
> > > I just had to downgrade from libc6 2.3.2-2 to 2.3.1-17, due to the same 
> > > reasons reported previously..
> > > 
> > > su, ssh and proftpd reported:
> > > 
> > > "Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.."
> > I backed out all the nss/nis changes that happened around 2003-06-25
> > (see attached dpatch) and with that recompiled glibc nis semms to work
> > again. That's no real solution but might show where the problem is. 
> It seems my last patch didn't mail didn't make it to the BTS, maybe
> because the patch was too big. It's now up at:
>  http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/glibc/patches/experimental/nss.dpatch
> I can put up glibc packages with this patch if someone wants to try
> them.

Does this patch bring back to old NSS behavior (2.3.1) ?
It's worth building and testing it on the trouble user machine :)

Regards,
-- gotom




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