More NFS NIS follies, mixing RH and Deb

[Mark Street]

I seem to have solved most of my problems associated with sharing my /home
partition with NFS and logins with NIS over my internal lan.  Trying to
integrate a new Debian Woody box into the mix of Red Hat boxen has been
enlightening...

I finally whittled it down to PAM handling logins through SSH in Woody.
The priv separation introduced in OpenSSH 3.4 may have introduced some
associated problems in authentication with RedHat's earlier patched
3.1p1-6 RPM.  The /etc/pam.d/ssh file contains the limits module.  If I
comment out the session required pam_limits line ssh logins worked fine
but still some complaints from PAM in the logs, the auth required
pam_env.so also complained in the logs but did not prevent login.

my /etc/security/limits.conf and pam_env.conf files had no entries.

The /var/log/auth.log provided valuable info to track down the source of
this little nasty.

A fairly recent issue similar was noted on debian's bug lists.
Bug#150968: patch for ssh PAM handling

http://lists.debian.org/debian-ssh/2002/debian-ssh-200206/msg00012.html

Another learning experience....