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Re: root login via Kerberos5 - "User not known to the underlying

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Allbery)
Fri Apr 4 12:30:11 2014

From: Brandon Allbery <ballbery@sinenomine.net>
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On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 18:21 +0200, Wendy Lin wrote:
> On 24 March 2014 11:31, Wendy Lin <wendlin1974@gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course, I do not know why this suddenly works. Can someone explain
> this? Why didn't it work when pam_unix came first?

Because root will always have a local account (required for the system
to operate) and the "sufficient" designation means that authentication
succeeds at that point without trying other authentication modules.

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