Hi,

I have been successful in configuring Diskless Linux workstations using boot images from www.etherboot.org and precompiled kernels from www.ltsp.org . ltsp-core version 3.0.0.

The diskless clients boots, loads its kernel via tftp, mounts root file system via NFS (from /opt/ltsp/i386 on the server) and gives either:

1) a telnet session to the server(The machine on which the root file system exists). 2) or a bash prompt.

Is it possible to authenticate the user before he gets the bash prompt(from /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/passwd)? I tried to do this by putting the binaries of mingetty, bash and login from my redhat linux distro. into the ltsp root file system /opt/ltsp/i386/bin/bash, /opt/ltsp/i386/bin/login and /opt/ltsp/i386/sbin/mingetty. I also copied /lib/security and /etc/pam.d . Note that

my Red Hat Linux system's kernel version is the same that ltsp-kernel package provides i.e. 2.4.9.

I copied a couple of users from /etc/passwd on my system to /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/passwd file.

After doing all this, I was successful in getting a login prompt but was unable to authenticate any user. What could be the problem?. I was not using shadow passwords. Then I also tried copying the shadow and group files from my linux box but no success.

Please guide me as to what the problem could be.

Regards, Ashok

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