Re: NIS/AMD questions

[Dale Martin <dmartin@ececs.uc.edu>]

Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

> I have no pam whatsoever. I have the debian nis package, and when the
> NIS server goes down login hangs and dies, even on the console.
> The root entry is not exported via NIS and is present on the machine's passwd.
> Am I alone experiencing this ?
> 
> Phil.

I have had this problem too - you're not alone.  I have an entry for
root in /etc/passwd, but if my NIS server (a different machine) is
down, I can't log in.

Later,
	Dale

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