how to deceive programs as if I were a local user?

[Chris Cowart]

Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 04:32:29PM +0900, Kouichiro Iwao typed:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > 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) account.
> > 
> > Connecting the remote server, nxclient says "connection error" and
> > I found out that it caused by nxssh.
> > 
> > If nxssh was executed by a NIS account, nxssh says,
> > [meta at trueno ~]$ nxssh
> > You don't exist, go away!
> > 
> > How to deceive programs as if I were a user in /etc/master.passwd?
> 
> 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

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