Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote:
> > That's incorrect, you can login with a password locally because it then
> > acts like a normal UNIX login. You HAVE to add nis to the nsswitch.conf
> > fields in order to use _any_ programs with NIS. This is not a PAM issue.
>
> OK, now you're confusing me.
>
> * I have no local users on this machine apart from root.
> * I can login with users specified in the NIS database if that user has a
> password.
> * I can not login with a NIS user if that user has a blank password.
> * If I give a user which is not in the NIS database I get a different
> authentication error message. (Cannot retrieve authentation info.)
> * finger <username> retrieves the correct information from the NIS database.
>
> How can NIS not be working?
Ok, I misunderstood what you were trying to explain. The no password login
is an issue with the pam_unix.so (I though you were saying you couldn't
login at all with NIS). I already knew about this, and it will be fixed in
my next upload.
Ben
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