Re: NIS su - joe su: Autentication service cannot retrieve authntication info. (Ignored)
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:13:19PM +0200, chj wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:35:22PM +0200, Robert Rakowicz wrote:
> > Christian Jönsson <christian@j-son.org> writes:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems.
> > >
> > > Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up
> > > with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on
> > > a NIS client host.
> > >
> > > If I login as root on the NIS client host, and try su - joe
> > > (assuming joe is in the NIS master host users) I get this
> > > behaviour:
> > >
> > > su - joe
> > > su: Authentication service cannt retrieve authentication info.
> > > (Ignored)
> > >
> > > but I het the user Joe account, with the right UID/GID, the
> > > right username translation from UID, the right group name
> > > translation from GID...
> > >
> > > I wonder what is wrong? How do I "debug" this to track down my error?
> >
> > Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf. Some months ago I had the same
> > problem. It was nsswitch.conf.
> > nsswitch.conf with "compat" don't work for me. Maybe you have the same
> > problem. Now I have in my nsswitch.conf:
> > passwd: files nis
> > group: files nis
> > shadow: files nis
>
>
> Tried this. Now I can su - Joe... But, trying a gnome login from gdm:
Dang, I didn't restart gdm... It works now. Thanks!
Cheers,
/ChJ
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