Hi all - We're setting up a new machine as a gateway for our lab, and decided to install hamm on it, mainly so we have access to the latest versions of sendmail, bind, etc., when security fixes come out. Unfortunately, when I upgraded the system to hamm, I forgot about the existence of the upgrade howto, and had a little mess for a few hours, but (I think) I was able to clean everything up.
Our system is set up to use amd to automount our home directories over nfs. Authentication is done using nis(yp). One problem I ran into recently was with login and nis. When I upgraded the system to login_980403-0.1 and passwd_980403-0.1, I found that I could no longer log in as a regular user. Whenever I would try to log in, login would log the message: login[341]: invalid password for `UNKNOWN' on `tty1' in /var/log/auth.log. In order to fix the problem, I downgraded to the stable versions of login and passwd (961025-2.1). Now, at least I can log in, but whoami doesn't work(whoami: cannot find username for UID xxxxx), nor does "cd ~username" (Unknown user: username). If I downgrade shellutils, whoami works again, but who stops working (no output), and cd ~username still doesn't work. yuck. Anyway, can anyone give me any ideas? If this is a bug, I'll report it, of course (as soon as I figure out how and to whom), but in the mean time, what can I do to get my system up and running properly?! Thanks, Kevin ----- Kevin Squire [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Student Nakajima Research Laboratory Tokyo Institute of Technology -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
