Re: NIS Client Problem

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Roland Dunn:
> 
> One thing though - the root password for my new (DEBIAN) server is the
> local root password - how can I tell the new server to take its' root
> pwd from NIS rather than use the local password?

See /etc/nsswitch.conf?  The order of the options defines the order in
which they're used.

I'm purposely ignoring whether you want to do this or not.  I'm
assuming you know what you're doing.


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