Problem with telnet RH 7.2 nisplus client

[Jimmy Beasley]

the problem was resolved when I set the nsswitch.conf file to "files nisplus"
on passwd, shadow, and group  instead of the "compat" form.
also no modifications were needed to the "system-auth" or the "sshd" files
only login see below.

$ cat /etc/pam.d/login
#%PAM-1.0
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so      set_secrpc
auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
account    required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
password   required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
session    required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so




Alan Buxey wrote:

> hi,
>
> > I have RH 7.2 nisplus client and I have problems with telnet from other
> > unix and linux clients.
> > Is there a fix for this ?
>
> you can log into the linux box locally okay?  if so,
> then the NIS+ client is working okay - so you probably
> just have to change some of the other setting files
> in /etc/pam.d  - so that they call system-auth and no
> other - and system-auth is correct.
>
> eg system-auth looks like:
>
> #%PAM-1.0
> # This file is auto-generated.
> # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run.
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so set_secrpc
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
> account    required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
> password   required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> session    required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> #session    optional    /lib/security/pam_console.so
>
> and sshd looks like:
>
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so set_secrpc
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
> account    required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
> password   required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> session    required     /lib/security/pam_unix2.so
> #session    optional    /lib/security/pam_console.so
>
> and login looks like:
>
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
> account    required     /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> password   required     /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> session    required     /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth
> session    optional     /lib/security/pam_console.so
>
> make VERY certain you dont call the usual  unix pam client. only use unix2
>
> alan