Re: NIS/AMD questions
On 09 Jul 1997 23:00:27 +0200 Christian Leutloff (leutloff@abraxas.och
e.de) wrote:
> 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??
I haven't got a root entry in the nis tables.
My nsswitch.conf is "as distributed". I thought this file was only used for libc6, not with libc5. It not, how do specify to fall back to the local passwd if NIS fails ? There is no manpage on nsswitch.conf...
Phil.
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