Unable to log into a Debian Jessie system using an UCS domain username

[birkefeld]

Hi Sylvain,

@sleroux

• The UCS managed user “sylvain” appears in the result of “getent passwd”

   root@ucs-debian-client-01:/home/user# getent passwd | grep sylvain
   sylvain:x:2008:5001:Sylvain Leroux:/home/sylvain:/bin/bash

It’s look like, that this is a local user and not the domain user.
Do you set up an additional user (next to root) during the Debian installation?

Your information is not really clear. One time you get a user with “getent” and than not.

@sleroux

At this point:

• The UCS managed user “sylvain” appears in the result of “getent passwd”

root@ucs-debian-client-01:/home/user# getent passwd | grep sylvain
sylvain:x:2008:5001:Sylvain Leroux:/home/sylvain:/bin/bash

…

This is confirmed by getpwname being unable to locate the domain user:

root@ucs-debian-client-01:/home/user# getent passwd sylvain
root@ucs-debian-client-01:/home/user#  <-- nothing

Maybe your nsswitch is not set up right. Please check this

sudo nss_updatedb ldap
ls -l /var/lib/misc/*.db

also your “/etc/nsswitch.conf” should search in ldap:

passwd:         files ldap [NOTFOUND=return] db
group:          files ldap [NOTFOUND=return] db

For more infos and hints see PamsCcredsHowto (this should work on Debian as well).

Best regards,
Tobi