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Re: New user creation problems



This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said:
> Hello all,
> I recently added a new user to my system, so that he and I could file
> share - he'll be mostly conecting via ssh or scp'ing files in & out.
> this part of it has worked just fine so far.
> Now for the problem:
> He stopped by the other day, and wanted to log in to do something or
> other, but kdm kicked him out with a "login failed".  Rather than worry
> about kdm at first, as he doesn't need a GUI, we jumped back to an open
> vt, and he tried to login.  This failed with "permission denied".  Now
> I'm stumped.
> I added him with the normal adduser program, filling in pertinent
> details.  I can su - "user" and log in as him fine.  He can ssh in
> without a problem.  He has an entry in both /etc/groups and /etc/shadow.
> None of the other users have this problem.  I really can't figure out
> where the problem is - it seems to me like a PAM issue, but just looking
> through the conf files, I don't see anything that is set up to exclude
> all but listed users, or include only some users - that is, I see that
> it can be done in various files, but I have not changed them from their
> commented out original state.
> Running Sid, up to date as of today.
> Help?

Sorry to answer my own question, but if others get stuck here too - it's
/etc/security/access.conf that was the problem.
Steve

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