On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:35:22PM +0200, Robert Rakowicz wrote: > Christian Jönsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > I am trying to set up NIS on my Debian Woody SPARC systems. > > > > Following nis.debian.howto using shadow passwords I end up > > with this problem. I cannot login on any virtual console on > > a NIS client host. > > > > If I login as root on the NIS client host, and try su - joe > > (assuming joe is in the NIS master host users) I get this > > behaviour: > > > > su - joe > > su: Authentication service cannt retrieve authentication info. > > (Ignored) > > > > but I het the user Joe account, with the right UID/GID, the > > right username translation from UID, the right group name > > translation from GID... > > > > I wonder what is wrong? How do I "debug" this to track down my error? > > Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf. Some months ago I had the same > problem. It was nsswitch.conf. > nsswitch.conf with "compat" don't work for me. Maybe you have the same > problem. Now I have in my nsswitch.conf: > passwd: files nis > group: files nis > shadow: files nis
Tried this. Now I can su - Joe... But, trying a gnome login from gdm: May 19 15:07:49 sparky su[290]: + tty1 root-chj May 19 15:07:49 sparky PAM_unix[290]: (su) session opened for user chj by root(uid=0) May 19 15:08:01 sparky PAM_unix[295]: (cron) session opened for user mail by (uid=0) May 19 15:08:02 sparky PAM_unix[295]: (cron) session closed for user mail May 19 15:08:16 sparky PAM_unix[259]: check pass; user unknown May 19 15:08:16 sparky PAM_unix[259]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> chj for gdm service May 19 15:08:18 sparky gdm[259]: Couldn't authenticate user May 19 15:08:28 sparky PAM_unix[259]: check pass; user unknown May 19 15:08:28 sparky PAM_unix[259]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> chj for gdm service May 19 15:08:30 sparky gdm[259]: Couldn't authenticate user May 19 15:08:53 sparky PAM_unix[294]: (login) session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0) May 19 15:08:53 sparky login[294]: ROOT LOGIN on `tty1' May 19 15:09:10 sparky su[307]: + tty1 root-chj May 19 15:09:10 sparky PAM_unix[307]: (su) session opened for user chj by root(uid=0) May 19 15:09:25 sparky su[311]: + tty1 root-chj May 19 15:09:25 sparky PAM_unix[311]: (su) session opened for user chj by root(uid=0) May 19 15:09:42 sparky su[316]: + tty1 root-chj May 19 15:09:42 sparky PAM_unix[316]: (su) session opened for user chj by root(uid=0) May 19 15:11:42 sparky su[327]: + tty1 chj-root May 19 15:11:42 sparky PAM_unix[327]: (su) session opened for user root by root(uid=1000) Ideas? Cheers, /ChJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
