On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:13:19PM +0200, chj wrote: > 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:
Dang, I didn't restart gdm... It works now. Thanks! Cheers, /ChJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
