On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ken Nowack wrote: > > However, if I su to root and type 'groups ken' it > reads correctly like so:
What are the permissions on your /etc/group and /etc/passwd files? > This is a Mandrake 8.1 system. I'm completely baffled > as to why this would be happening. Perhaps the system > auth is referencing some other file containing some > errors that is causing it to repeat those same errors > no matter what I do with the ken account or the > groups. How do I fix this? > > This brings me to my second question. Does anyone know > of a way I can create a replicateable and/or > distributable system auth database? What I mean is, an > auth database that I would be able to install in > another system (or a reinstalled system) using the > same auth method thus having all the group and user > accounts set up already? I have been reading into PAM > and LDAP but can't find this kind of information. Or > perhaps there is another authentication system that > would work, NIS maybe? NIS would work and it's fairly simple to setup. I use it internally but understand that there are some security concerns. NIS+ is supposedly more secure but I've never used it.
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