[LON-CAPA-admin] domain coordinator cannot log in on new system

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi,

> So no joy yet. Without a domain coordinator, I'm going nowhere fast,  
>  but thanks for trying. I'm running out of ideas.

Since a domain coordinator account created via the command line is  
filesystem ("UNIX") authenticated you need a patched version of  
/usr/local/sbin/pwauth installed on your server with the correct  
permissions so that lond can authenticate the user's credentials  
passed in via the web log-in page:

http://lon-capa-test.bsu.edu/

Installation of LON-CAPA on a clean Linux system requires running  
./install.pl in the "installation" directory, created when you extract  
the contents of the tarball which you download from:

http://install.loncapa.org/linux/install.tar

-- see step 4 of the LON-CAPA installation notes for CentOS 6:
http://install.loncapa.org/centos6_install.html

Can you check the permissions and file size for:

/usr/local/sbin/pwauth

It should be similar to:

-rwsr-sr-x   1 root root 15706

If something is not correct with pwauth you can run ./install.pl  
again, answering "y" to the prompt: "Install the package LON-CAPA uses  
to authenticate users?"

Note you need both gcc and patch installed on your system to be able  
to compile the version of pwauth required by LON-CAPA.

I am assuming that you are able to set the password via the command  
line for the bsudc user, and that you are able to bring up a shell  
session via ssh for the bsudc user, using the password you have  
assigned to the bsudc account.

If this does not resolve the issue, the next step would be to convert  
the bsudc to use internal LON-CAPA authentication, using a text editor  
(e.g., vim) from the command line to modify  
/home/httpd/lonUsers/bsu/b/s/u/bsudc/passwd

Stuart

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group



Quoting "Neubauer, Paul" <pneubauer at bsu.edu>:

> Hi Mark,
>
> I added a corresponding line to my /etc/hosts
>
> [root at lon-capa-test ~]# cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4   
> localhost4.localdomain4
> 10.193.6.84 lon-capa-test.bsu.edu lon-capa-test
> ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6   
> localhost6.localdomain6
>
> Then I rebooted just to make sure. :-)
>
> Unfortunately, I still get:
>
> ----------------------------
> Sorry ...
>
> Username and/or password could not be authenticated.
>
> Please log in again.
>
> Login problems?
> ----------------------------
>
>
> So no joy yet. Without a domain coordinator, I'm going nowhere fast,  
>  but thanks for trying. I'm running out of ideas.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul