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Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.



(For anyone subscribed to kde-devel: sorry again ;-) )

See the subject line for the error I'm getting. I don't know what causes it 
and Google just showed me a bunch of people having the same problem since 
2001 (haven't seen earlier results, but that doesn't mean they're not there).

What first irritated me was that after installing logcheck, I saw this message 
from cron:

Mar 12 20:23:01 chicago CRON[8427]: Authentication service cannot retrieve 
authentication info.

every 15 minutes. I'm rather sure it's caused by the exim cronjob because the 
time matches and if I try su'ing to mail or daemon, I get:

# su mail
su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.
(Ignored)

but the operation itself is successful. I can su to other users (didn't try 
them all) without a hitch, regular users as well as other users created by 
the system.

I am not using LDAP, NIS or any other fancy backend, so what can be the cause 
of this?

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