On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:43:40AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > > > pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use > > > lookups) recognizes NIS with any problems, so long as the NS Switch is > > > setup properly. > > > > I'll give it a go[....]
Right I put 'nis' on the start of the passwd line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. No change. :-( I even restarted all services just to be sure (runlevel 2->1->2) > > The other thing I should have mentioned is in /var/log/auth.log I'm getting > > > > PAM_unix [1234]: authentation failure; LOGIN(uid=0) -> <username> for login > > service > > 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? Paul P.S. I'm not trying to wind you up, I'm just confused. -- Paul Sargent Tel: +44 (1784) 476669 Fax: +44 (1784) 470699 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
