Bug#204711: libc6: PAM broken, login impossible, possibly NIS related
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I have a setup with NIS, and I have this in my nsswitch.conf:
passwd: compat
group: compat
shadow: compat
After upgrading from 2.3.1-17 to 2.3.2-2, loging in failed for all NIS
users, whether on the host running the NIS server or not. I changed the
nsswitch file to contain:
passwd: db files nis
group: db files
shadow: db files nis
This allowed local users to log in again. However, remote users (whether
in NIS or not, even root) can not log in with rlogin and ssh. Only telnet seems to
work. This pretty much makes login servers completely useless (maybe
severity should be critical).
Downgrading libc6 to 2.3.1-17 fixes this problem. If you need more
information, please ask!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux xar 2.4.21-v4l2 #2 Fri Jun 13 22:09:57 CEST 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set)
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
-- no debconf information
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