Adam Mercer wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Good. Can you log in as the non-root user? > > No, all users on this box are from NIS. How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that user? Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into the account. So I don't understand this comment. > > 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. And at the moment you can't log in at all. Right? Did this work previously? If so then you might try investigating what changed between then and now. Or is this something that hasn't ever worked and you are trying to set it up for the first time? > > If not then why not? Start debugging there. I still think that is the right direction to push. Since the account is in NIS but isn't enabled personally I would create a temporary local account for testing. Don't forget to clean it up afterward. I would guess that there is some local configuration issue that is preventing the account from being authorized. Need to isolate the problems into as simple of a case as possible and divide and conquer to a solution. Bob
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