Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes: > 1) If the NIS server is down for a NIS domain, root cannot log on the > console. This is annoying, accounts which are in /etc/passwd (like > root) should be always accessible. isn't it?? Under solaris this works pretty fine. Have you a root entry in your NIS tables?? Perhaps you should delete it. Have you set up nsswitch.conf to use "files" if "nis" failes?? -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMail: leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian/GNU Linux! Mehr unter http://www.de.debian.org/
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