On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:12:37PM +0000, Mark Cooke wrote: > Basically Iam having the problem below: > I have a server exporting NIS/NFS to my other 2 pc's, the server amongst others is > exporting /home to all my machines with the user created on the server). > So I can boot up any box and login to my account on the server.. > > This works fine if I boot up to text mode and then login and type: startx, > > >But if i up boot up to init:5 to gdm to log in (it works fine as root for both text and gdm, > as root is only allowed to log into the local > >account) it refuses access, basically in /var/log/messages, it moaning about cannot authorise the user, > > >As it works fine booting to init:3 and then logging in and starting X for normal users. > > It seems that gdm for some reason is not using nis? and looking directly at the >local /etc/passwd file, and cannot find the user > > To be honest Iam not sure where the problem could be, gdm, pam, X? > > Mark We are doing the same thing and it works for us. I would check the nisswitch file in etc to be sure thaqt authentication is going to nis not nisplus or some other place. Now I understand that if nisswitch was screwed up the text mode should not work either but check it anyway.
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