Re: NIS and GDM3

Kevin Philp <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:20:45 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ilug.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have found the problem. nscd was not installed. After installing 
everything worked as it should. I don't remember ever installing this 
manually before, maybe in previous distro's it was pulled in as a 
dependency.

On Friday, 26 October 2018 10:32:05 UTC+1, Kevin Philp wrote:
>
> We have a small network running Debian with a server farming out /home 
> over nfs4 and authentication with NIS to a few desktops. It has been 
> running for years. I was just adding a new desktop and thought, for a bit 
> of fun, I would use Debian Buster - I know its unstable. The new desktop 
> runs and I can log into a terminal using NIS. I can see all the home files 
> imported by NFS with idmap working correctly. I can log into gnome if the 
> user is in declared locally. But if I try to log into gnome with a NIS user 
> it fails.
>
> I found reference to editing systemd-logind.service to remove 
> IPAddressDeny=any which I have changed but I still can't log in - any ideas?
>

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