Bug#162457: ssh: not reading netgroups

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:48:21AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:58:46PM -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> > SSH has to read the password information from somewhere.  The fact that
> > finger and ftpd can read it properly points the finger at ssh improperly
> > reading it.
> 
> Unfortunately, that doesn't really help us track down where the problem
> might be (it could still be in some other piece of configuration
> affecting ssh).
> 
> Could you arrange for this problem to occur, and:
> 
>   * run sshd with -ddd and capture its output;
>   * run ssh with -vvv and capture its output;
>   * show us /etc/pam.d/ssh?
> 
> We need to know why sshd is rejecting your authentication attempt.

Can I ping you about this? Without more information there's very little
we can do here; neither Matthew nor I use NIS at the moment.

I'd also be interested to know if anything is being logged to
/var/log/auth.log.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]