On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:27:11AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
[..snip..]
> I'll add something more to the documentation about this, explaining the
> issue.
I just noticed the docs already have:

| This configuration will still require that users be listed in /etc/shadow,
| since otherwise the pam_unix account module will fail.  Normally, accounts
| that should only use Kerberos authentication should be created with
| adduser --disabled-password.  If you
| don't want the accounts to be listed in /etc/shadow at all (if, for
| example, you're using some other source than files for your nsswitch
| configuration), you can mark the pam_krb5 account module as sufficient
| rather than required so that pam_unix isn't run.  This will mean that
| you won't be able to disable accounts locally.

So this was probably just an oversight on my part and the bug can be
closes as is.
Cheers,
 -- Guido



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