No real answers from the list, but thanks to John Pritchard
(pritchj_at_catalystsol.com) for his suggestion. The problem actually turned out
to be the number of groups the offending users were members of. When this was
reduced to below 16, all was fine.
Julian
My original posting was:
On our DU (3.2/4.0) machines, some of our users are having problems logging
in. We're using amd to get the home directories, but the following messages
appear. A cd (as root) to the users home directory works no problem and the
directory on the remote home directory server (Sparc 10)can be mounted
manually with no problem. The following messages appear every an su is tried.
# su - username
NFS2 lookup failed for server server1 : RPC: Authentication error
NFS2 lookup failed for server server2 : RPC: Authentication error
No directory
Occasionally, the user is logged in with / as the home directory, but any
operations like ls od pwd will give an i/o error.
This problem only seems to affect a few users - if user1 and user2
have home directories on the same partition on the remote nfs server,
user1 can login but user2 can't.
It is not a problem with the remote nfs server and it is not a problem
with the DU mounting the remote directories.
Any ideas?
Regards
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Julian Rawcliffe email: J.Rawcliffe_at_surrey.ac.uk
Computer Systems Support Officer Tel: +44 1483 259125
VSSP Research Group Fax: +44 1483 34139
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH
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