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 in that then. Because otherwise it would be working. However I don't know anything about it and can't advise you further. > getent for this user returns nothing. That is the problem. I suggest pushing down that avenue of debugging and figuring out how to make that work. Unless and until that is working then one can't expect anything on the system that uses the account database to work either. This is the problem. This is not a problem with screen or Emacs or any other utility. It is a problem with the way your system is configured. You will need to debug it there. > Interestingly, emacs complains there is no home directory for this > user, even though it does, in fact, exist. > > Very strange. That is the same thing as the 'getent passwd $USER' failure. Same thing. Since the system can't get the account information for the user then Emacs can't get the account either. Same thing. Bob _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
