On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 16:13, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: >> No, all users on this box are from NIS. > > How does having a user in NIS prevent you from logging in as that > user? Presumably the purpose of NIS is to enable the user to log into > the account. So I don't understand this comment.
It doesn't that was just extra information. > And at the moment you can't log in at all. Right? As the individual user yes. We can log in as root. > Did this work previously? If so then you might try investigating what > changed between then and now. Or is this something that hasn't ever > worked and you are trying to set it up for the first time? This is a fresh VM. > I still think that is the right direction to push. Since the account > is in NIS but isn't enabled personally I would create a temporary > local account for testing. Don't forget to clean it up afterward. I > would guess that there is some local configuration issue that is > preventing the account from being authorized. Need to isolate the > problems into as simple of a case as possible and divide and conquer > to a solution. Sounds like a sane approach, I'll do that tomorrow. Cheers Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+mfgz2e0m1xfw-3frek8tkpkama0f8aiyvsvcvwjsthh+r...@mail.gmail.com
