Fun with Gnome/KDE and NIS/NFS

[srehrlich-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Scott Ehrlich)]

I have an isolated LAN consisting of a Fedora NIS/NFS server and a
handful of CentOS and Fedora workstations.    It has been a while
since I last added a node, but I recently needed to.   NIS and NFS
work fine - I can ssh into the new node with no problem.

But, for console login, whether I use KDE or GNOME, I get the infamous
login, then immediate log out with the warning that I've been logged
in for less than 10 seconds...

I've had this problem before, but it was a while back and I cannot
recall how I fixed it.

Disk space is plentiful, and my account is fine because I can ssh into
the box - console login is the problem.

I have no problem with console with any other node on this network to
my account - just this new box.

/tmp has 1777 permissions.

How did I fix this the last time...???

Thanks.

Scott