[plug] Re: Issues with logging in users authenticated from database

[Tim]

Lots of debugging later, installing nscd apparently makes the problem
go away. Got to debug more to isolate what causes the bug so it can be
fixed, but a solution is installing nscd.

Tim

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tim<weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:
> As some of you may be aware, we are moving the plug server to a new
> machine. As part of the process, we need to migrate the user database
> that is in postgresql, and that libnss and pam authenticate from.
>
> As far as I'm aware, I have everything correct now  (no more segfaults
> at least).
>
> But I have created 2 test users now, and while I can run certain
> commands as the user, I can't login as the user or run many other
> commands.
> For example. su linuxalientest -c 'ls -la /tmp' works.
> $ su linuxalientest -c 'ls -la /tmp'
> drwxrwxrwt  4 root root 4096 2009-08-21 14:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2009-08-19 22:24 ..
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 2009-08-20 20:34 .ICE-unix
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 2009-08-20 20:34 .X11-unix
>
> but as the other test user, just sits there doing nothing.
> $ su test1 -c 'ls -la /tmp'
>
> attempting to login or ssh just times out with what appears to be the
> starting shell part. Even su linuxalientest -c 'bash' times out.
>
> ps aux|grep test1
> root      6921  1.6  0.1  10708  3816 ?        Ss   11:23   0:00 sshd:
> test1 [priv]
> test1     6930  0.1  0.1  10660  2476 ?        S    11:23   0:00 sshd:
> test1 at pts/18
> test1     6934  0.1  0.1   9036  2620 pts/18   Ss+  11:23   0:00 -zsh
>
> $ getent passwd test1
> test1:x:10303:10303:Test Test,,,:/home/test1:/usr/bin/zsh
> $ getent passwd linuxalientest
> linuxalientest:x:10302:10302:Tim Test White,,,:/home/linuxalientest:/bin/bash
>
> linuxalien at un:~$ getent group |grep test1
> test1::10303:test1
> linuxalien at un:~$ getent group |grep linuxalientest
> linuxalientest::10302:linuxalientest
>
> $ ls -l /home
> <snip>
> drwxr-xr-x 2 linuxalientest linuxalientest 4096 2009-08-20 21:57 linuxalientest
> drwxr-xr-x 2 test1          test1          4096 2009-08-14 21:42 test1
> <snip>
>
> I know it has to be something with ether pam/nss or actually to do
> with the users details once logged in (permissions or something?) but
> I'm a little at a loss as to what it is.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Timothy White - Somewhere in Australia
>



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