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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