Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 15:20, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Good. Can you log in as the non-root user?
No, all users on this box are from NIS.
> Yes. Stop all other lines of debugging and focus on this issue. Why
> is there an error there? Can you log in as that user?
>
> laltest@lal-squeeze:~$ su -l laltest
No, as this account is a special account without a password. We can
only log into this account using a shared ssh key.
> If not then why not? Start debugging there.
>
>> Also I have a cron job scheduled, via crontab, to run at 21:01
>> everyday. It fails to run and the only reference to this I can find in
>> the logs is the following:
>> Apr 8 21:01:01 lal-squeeze CRON[14107]: Authentication failure
>> So I imagine that this is a different manifestation of the same problem.
>
> Everything points to the same problem. Debug it first.
>
>> Any recommendations on how to debug this issue?
>
> Look in /var/log/syslog for messages. Look in /var/log/auth.log for
> messages.
I can't see anything in the logs around the time that I try and
connect to the box.
Cheers
Adam
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