Thanks, like a dictionary, google only retunrs useful stuff if you know what to look for...a bit catch 22. Some of the docs I did read only covered ssh, and while yes it is probably a wider issue, leaving this point out of an ssh setup page is an issue... regards Steven Jones Senior Linux/Unix/San/Vmware System Administrator APG -Technology Integration Team Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 463 6272 -----Original Message----- From: fedora-directory-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Rigler Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:17 a.m. To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project. Subject: RE: ssh login fail 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 -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users