gdm / nis problem

[Stefan Boresch]

I'm gradually trying to incorporate my Ubuntu (warty) workstation
in the workgroup network, which uses NIS (served from a
whiteboxlinux box). 

Basically, I can't log on to the ubuntulinux workstation as
a nis user.  In /var/log/auth.log I find: 

Dec  7 18:57:52 localhost gdm[7006]: (pam_unix) check pass; user unknown
Dec  7 18:57:52 localhost gdm[7006]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; 
logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=:0 ruser= rhost=

I'm reasonably sure that things are set up right, since
 ypcat passwd 
works, as does 
 getent passwd
and
 getent shadow 
works only when invoked through sudo, as it should.

To add insult to insure, I can log on to the machine nicely through
ssh ... so sshd gets nis user right, but gdm doesn't. The PAM
config files look about the same ...

Help appreciated, thanks

Stefan

PS: In any case, a great distro!!!

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Stefan Boresch
Institute for Theoretical Chemistry and Structural Molecular Biology
University of Vienna, Waehringerstr. 17       A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: -43-1-427752715                        Fax:   -43-1-427752790