Thanks Petter for your response. It looks like the authentication process looks for the user in /etc/passwd first and if the user is not there it gives up, ie. dose not go to the LDAP server. However, if LDAP is first then everything works fine. Also I note that if I do su - username as root [authentication not required] I get: su: Authentication failure (Ignored)
//Ger On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 12:52 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Ger Hooton] > > Any ideas? > > Not really. > > But you seem to confuse authentication with user information. > nsswitch.conf control which users are visible (and other related > information), while the content of /etc/pam.d/ control password > checking. > > Did you consider using sssd instead? If you are lucky, > /usr/lib/sssd/generate-config would generate the sssd config you need > automatically, and the default setup for NSS and PAM should work out of > the box. > -- Gerard Hooton. Senior Technical Officer Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering University College Cork. College Road. Cork. Ireland. Tel: +353 21 4902296 Mobile: 085 281 3491 -- 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/1371123701.2407.26.camel@pc014
