yep that cleared up my problem. I am converting from ldap to kerberos and I was unaware that kerberos needed at least the local user in the passwd file. Thanks for the help
mike On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 18:16, seph wrote: > > I get the following error in /var/log/messages on the client > > > > Mar 30 13:39:20 homer login(pam_unix)[21652]: check pass; user unknown > > Mar 30 13:39:20 homer login(pam_unix)[21652]: authentication failure; > > logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty2 ruser= rhost= > > Mar 30 13:39:20 homer login[21652]: pam_krb5: unable to determine > > uid/gid for user > > it can't find account information. like uid and gid (as the error > says). What's the account part of your pam setup say? Where do you > expect that data to come from? > > Are you using /etc/passwd on the server? If so, you'll need the > equivalent on the client. This is one of the things ldap or hesiod is > used for. kerberos only provides authentication. > > seph -- Mike Zupan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
