[ILUG] CentOS 4 NIS client weirdness

[Frank Duignan]

All I can offer is that I concur with your diagnosis that it is PAM related
- had a similar problem arise after vmware on Slackware reacted badly with a
prior dropline gnome install.  The setup was a test one so I simply wiped
and restarted - not much help I know!
f.

On 8/24/06, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:
>
> I have a CentOS 4 (=~ RHES4) box which is a NIS client of a SuSE 9.3
> box, which is behaving very oddly. It is connected to the master -
> ypwhich shows the master's name, ypwhich -m shows the maps, and ypcat
> of a map shows what it should.
>
> However, strange things happen on trying to login as a NIS user. I
> can't login on the console - it's as if the password is wrong. I can
> ssh in, but when I do that, /etc/bashrc isn't sourced. It certainly
> feels somehow PAM related, but I'm not sure how. I have run
> authconfig --enablenis --enablemd5  and  /etc/pam.d/system-auth
> reflects that - I have
>
> password    sufficient    /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok
> use_authtok md5 shadow nis
>
>
> These lines from the log
>
> Aug 24 19:21:48 pumori login(pam_unix)[2733]: authentication failure;
> logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost=  user=niall
> Aug 24 19:21:51 pumori login[2733]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR
> niall, Authentication failure
>
> Aug 24 19:44:04 pumori sshd(pam_unix)[5897]: session opened for user
> niall by (uid=0)
>
>
> show a failed login on the console, and then a successful (to some
> extent) login by ssh.
>
>
> Any bright ideas?
>
>
> Niall
>
>
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