On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 10:07 +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > > I must have had multiple issues and initially I created accounts with a > posix user but later as I had re-done fully it sooo many times, I > stopped bothering....not realising it could have been an issue. > > SO I just setup the posix account settings (as shown above) and ssh > login now works.... > > ****slaps self repeatedly***** > > So under the ssh howtos there needs to be at least some pre-requsits ie > full posix setup.... > I wouldn't consider this a "ssh setup" issue. You'd probably finally plenty of helpful info googling for LDAP NIS replacement. This would translate into a setup that would work for ssh. -Steve