Re: Screen In An Active Directory Environment

2018-02-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > What does 'getent passwd $USER' say in this case? What does 'whoami' > > say in this case? > > whoami returns the correct name That is good at least. > nsswitch is looking first at files, then the vas4 authenticator Almost certainly the problem is i

Re: Screen In An Active Directory Environment

2018-01-22 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 01/21/2018 11:39 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > What does 'getent passwd $USER' say in this case? What does 'whoami' > say in this case? whoami returns the correct name nsswitch is looking first at files, then the vas4 authenticator getent for this user returns nothing. Interestingly, emacs com

Re: Screen In An Active Directory Environment

2018-01-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I am attempting to use screen in an RH7 environment wherein users > are managed centrally from AD somehow. screen blows out with: > > getpwuid() can't identify your account What does 'whoami' say in that same case? IIRC the traditional legacy Unix version would print "

Screen In An Active Directory Environment

2018-01-10 Thread Tim Daneliuk
I am attempting to use screen in an RH7 environment wherein users are managed centrally from AD somehow. screen blows out with: getpwuid() can't identify your account Evidently, this is because the user does not appear in /etc/passwd. Is there a workaround?