Re: Authentication issues trying to log onto a box as a standard user, and cron jobs...
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 16:13, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>> 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.
It doesn't that was just extra information.
> And at the moment you can't log in at all. Right?
As the individual user yes. We can log in as root.
> 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?
This is a fresh VM.
> 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.
Sounds like a sane approach, I'll do that tomorrow.
Cheers
Adam
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