Authntication problem login via SSH in AIX. 7.2
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Authntication problem login via SSH in AIX. 7.2

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Article ID: 244822

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Products

CA Privileged Identity Management Endpoint (PIM)

Issue/Introduction

When we login via ssh in a brand new seos installation with aix 7.2 the user is not recognized by the system

 

Environment

Release : 12.8 sp1

Component : AIX 7.2

Cause

The user is not recognized in the system

Setting pam loginflags is not helping

this is what we get

22 Jun 2022 08:08:46 M START                                    seagent
22 Jun 2022 08:08:47 O LOGOUT       _seagent              49  2                                                        
22 Jun 2022 08:08:56 M START                                    seoswd
22 Jun 2022 08:09:02 P LOGIN        USER.202              59  2 192.168.69.xxx       SSH                  (OS user)    
22 Jun 2022 08:09:03 O LOGOUT       USER.202              49  2 192.168.69.xxx                            (OS user)    
22 Jun 2022 08:09:03 P LOGIN        USER.3833             59  2 192.168.69.xxx      SSH                               
22 Jun 2022 08:09:20 O LOGOUT       USER.3833             49  2 192.168.69.xxx                                         
22 Jun 2022 08:09:51 P LOGIN        USER.202              59  2 192.168.69.227       SSH                  (OS user)    
22 Jun 2022 08:09:51 O LOGOUT       USER.202              49  2 192.168.69.227                            (OS user)    
22 Jun 2022 08:09:51 P LOGIN        USER.3833             59  2 192.168.69.227       SSH            

the user USER.3833, is not a system user

 

Resolution

In seos.ini

We change the setting to yes

under_NIS_server = yes

and we rebuild ladb

sebuild -a