[Fedora-directory-users] Use of NetGroups breaks local logins

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:41 -0400, Kyle Tucker wrote:
> > I came across this issue (those are my notes ;)
> > 
> > /etc/pamd./crond should contain 
> > auth       sufficient pam_rootok.so
> > 
> > Try adding an account line as well
> > 
> > /etc/pam.d/crond
> > account sufficient pam_rootok.so
> 
> But this won't affect my inability to log in as root. Both direct sshd 
> logins and 'su -' fails, the latter with "incorrect password". I know 
> the password for this system definitely.
> 



Add to access.netgroup.conf:

+:root: 

this will clear up the root access issue.

However - netgroup users will not be able to run cron jobs unless they
are added to /etc/security/access.conf

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-sg