SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Sudden problems with NIS logins

[Wolfgang Liebich]

Hi,
Wolfgang Liebich schrieb:
> Hi,
> I'm running a linux system at work, which is member in a NIS domain.
> My username is local, the others are on the NIS server (home dirs are
> distributed around the cluster).
> Now I suddenly detected that users whose login data are on the NIS
> server cannot login anymore! I suspect somehow that the upgrade to pam
> 0.99 and the disappearance of the "nis" USE flag.
It's rather bad form to answer one's own posts, BUT the REAL cause of 
the problem was something very different:
- On the Solaris boxen which comprise the rest of our NIS cluster, the 
login shell of the users is /usr/bin/bash
- On my linux box it's /bin/bash
- I've added a symlink from /usr/bin/bash to /bin/bash
NOT DONE: add /usr/bin/bash to /etc/shells

Moral of the story:
- Always check the FULL pam stack for possible problems - 
"authentification failed" does NOT mean just "authentification failed" :-/
Ciao,
Wolfgang


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