Re: Information - SSH & NIS login problem

> is it possible you had a /etc/._cfg_0000_shells file laying around ?
> or maybe you nuked the newer ones ?
> -mike
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dermot C Cassidy" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 07:44
> Subject: [gentoo-newbies] Information - SSH & NIS login problem
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I pass on this bit of information just in case anyone runs
> > into a similar problem.
> > 
> > I was having difficulties connecting into a gentoo box with
> > an NIS user.
> > 
> > Here were the symptoms:
> > 
> > (i)  I could log in locally using the NIS user. 
> > (ii) I could telnet in using the NIS user.
> > (iii) I could ssh in using local users.
> > (iv) I could not ssh in using the NIS user.
> > 
> > Turned out that the NIS user's default shell (/bin/csh)
> > was not in /etc/shells.  A surpising omission, since I
> > think the shells file was in its original state.  csh
> > may be bad, but NIS users who log into lots of different
> > sorts of boxes may be more likely to have it as a 
> > default.  csh, for instance, is widely used on the
> > Tru64 Unix boxes here, and they don't have tcsh or bash
> > installed by default. 
> > 
> > Maddeningly simple when you know the answer!  I looked
> > at lots of arcane sshd config options before I checked
> > the basics! 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Dermot
> > 
> > --
> >   Dermot Cassidy, Systems Engineer, MSE A&O 
> >     Hewlett-Packard, Ballybrit Business Park, Galway, Ireland.
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