Re: pam doesn't see nis
I guess you just have to add +:::::: in /etc/passwd; +:::::::: in
/etc/shadow and it will be okay.
Your sincerely,
Huegesh Marimuthu
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Peter Nome wrote:
>
> I've been running into a problem with NIS on Debian -- everything looks like it should be working, but logins fail with pam saying "user unknown".
>
> Here's an example -- I can change the password, so clearly NIS is working, yet at the end the login fails:
>
> root@jellyfish:~# yppasswd student
> Changing NIS account information for student on graywhale.
> Please enter root password:
> Changing NIS password for student on graywhale.
> Please enter new password:
> Please retype new password:
>
> The NIS password has been changed on graywhale.
>
> root@jellyfish:~# su student
> su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
> (Ignored)
> student@jellyfish:/root$
>
> Here's what my auth.log says when I try ssh jellyfish -l student:
>
> Aug 20 01:02:51 jellyfish ssh(pam_unix)[21143]: check pass; user unknown
> Aug 20 01:02:51 jellyfish ssh(pam_unix)[21143]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=NODEVssh ruser= rhost=graywhale
>
> I saw someone post the identical problem to debian-users (and receive no reply), so I guess it affects a number of people.
>
> Oh, and I should mention: I had this working! Late July, after the last nis upgrade. I did some other upgrade, no idea what, and got the problem. ypcat passwd and all kinds of other NIS map commands work fine.
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> This is an updated Debian sid running nis 3.9-6.3. I'm setting this up for a high school lab (remotely), and we're all ready to go aside from this.
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> Please cc me -- any suggestions much appreciated! I'm happy to suppy more information.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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