Good afternoon! I just finished installing a new Gentoo system and find, that I am unable to logon to the system using my normal user account with SSH. When I try to do so, I get the following in my syslog:
Mar 1 13:45:13 dewuga01 sshd[3519]: error: Could not get shadow information for vz6tml Mar 1 13:45:13 dewuga01 sshd[3519]: Failed password for vz6tml from 10.233.9.167 port 49724 ssh2 We are using "traditional NIS" with NO shadow database. Thus, the password is in the passwd encoded, like this: vz6tml:2ELy4sdBohRGM,7.QR:1100:3000:Alexander Skwar,CTCW:/u/vz6tml:/usr/local/bin/bash root (and also any other non-NIS-User, I suppose) is able to logon with SSH. With telnet (netkit-telnet) I'm also able to logon using my normal user account - but I'd rather not use telnet. When I use a SSH public key, I can login just fine. But I'd also like to be able to use my password to login. On a different (older) Gentoo system, everything works just fine. What might I have to tune, so that the new system also behaves the way I want it to? Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it. -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list