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Date:      Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:17:11 -0700
From:      Chris Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
To:        Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>, Kouichiro Iwao <meta@club.kyutech.ac.jp>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?
Message-ID:  <20090423181711.GH40655@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20090423091027.GA47290@ei.bzerk.org>
References:  <20090423073229.GA87987@club.kyutech.ac.jp> <20090423091027.GA47290@ei.bzerk.org>

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Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:32:29PM +0900, Kouichiro Iwao typed:
> > Hi.
> >=20
> > I'm going to connect to the remote server with nxclient.
> > But, net/linux-nx-client does't work with non-local (NIS or LDAP) accou=
nt.
> >=20
> > Connecting the remote server, nxclient says "connection error" and
> > I found out that it caused by nxssh.
> >=20
> > If nxssh was executed by a NIS account, nxssh says,
> > [meta@trueno ~]$ nxssh
> > You don't exist, go away!
> >=20
> > How to deceive programs as if I were a user in /etc/master.passwd?
>=20
> I don't know anything of nxssh, but it sounds like a pam issue.

This error means the program tried to look up some name information for
your UID number and failed. You need to configure the data source in
/etc/nsswitch.conf:

group: files cache ldap
passwd: files cache ldap

--=20
Chris Cowart
Network Technical Lead
Network & Infrastructure Services, RSSP-IT
UC Berkeley

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