On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > > That's incorrect, you can login with a password locally because it then > > acts like a normal UNIX login. You HAVE to add nis to the nsswitch.conf > > fields in order to use _any_ programs with NIS. This is not a PAM issue. > > OK, now you're confusing me. > > * I have no local users on this machine apart from root. > * I can login with users specified in the NIS database if that user has a > password. > * I can not login with a NIS user if that user has a blank password. > * If I give a user which is not in the NIS database I get a different > authentication error message. (Cannot retrieve authentation info.) > * finger <username> retrieves the correct information from the NIS database. > > How can NIS not be working?
Ok, I misunderstood what you were trying to explain. The no password login is an issue with the pam_unix.so (I though you were saying you couldn't login at all with NIS). I already knew about this, and it will be fixed in my next upload. Ben
