New Install - X login with NIS user
Russ Johnson
russj at dimstar.net
Mon Apr 11 20:38:23 UTC 2005
I just installed Hoary, and seem to have difficulty logging in as my
user account.
The computer with Ubuntu installed is an NIS client on my network.
If I go to a console (alt-f1) I can use this username to log in, no
problem at all.
If I go to the X login screen, the same name/password combination does
not work.
The user I created at install works in both places.
I see this in the /var/log/auth.log when I try to log in via X:
Apr 10 23:17:38 localhost gdm[29616]: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown
Apr 10 23:17:38 localhost gdm[29616]: (pam_unix) authentication failure;
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=
And when I log in via a console, it reads like this:
Apr 10 23:15:01 localhost login[23750]: (pam_unix) session opened for
user russj by LOGIN(uid=0)
I've looked through the files in /etc/pam.d/ and /etc/pam.conf, and
don't see anything that
The confusing part is that console logins work. X logins don't.
Thanks for any pointers.
Russ
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