Almost but not quite on Slackware 10.0

[Michael Carmody]

I have DL, compiled, installed, and configured and setup mysql DB.
I have getent passwd returning cinergi user, login at console works perfectly, and can chown and chgrp files to cinergi and foobaz.

But ssh, proftpd will not recognise the cinergi user.

What have I missed ?

Given all the above working what else do I need to get the more useful applications working ?

Now I know Slack doesn't have PAM installed, but I thought that it wasn't needed, and was hoping to avoid installing it. And of course ssh and proftpd have been compiled without PAM.

Any Ideas ?

[Ben Goodwin]

PAM isn't needed, so we can rule that out.
For Proftpd, have you checked the FAQ:

http://libnss-mysql.sourceforge.net/libnss-mysql/FAQ

For sshd - can I assume you've restarted the daemon?  Is NSCD running?
Best bet would be to run sshd in debug mode and see what it says.

[Michael Carmody]

Yep that works, after a reboot it all works perfectly.

Thanks muchly !

Michael