From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 7 13: 9:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nexprise.com (gw.nexprise.com [206.79.13.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 636CE37BBBB for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:09:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dthiel@nexprise.com) Received: from lgm-118a.internal.nexprise.com (mx.nexprise.com [192.168.25.222]) by gw.nexprise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA27577; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexprise.com (wombat.internal.nexprise.com [192.168.25.67]) by lgm-118a.internal.nexprise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13809; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dthiel@nexprise.com) Message-ID: <398F1887.853ABF02@nexprise.com> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:13:59 -0700 From: David Thiel Organization: Nexprise Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" Subject: Re: What's up with yp login authentication? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aha! I found the problem, from your last message - I don't think I used vipw, I was just straight vi-ing the password files. After using that, NIS appears to all work fine except for when I su to root, a whoami returns '0', and when I vi things, it keeps complaining that UID 0 does not exist. Any ideas on that one? -lx "Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Mathew KANNER wrote: > > > Did you use ypinit? Does your /var/yp/master.passwd contain > >any '#' lines? > > It's fixed now, if you'll see my other messages in this thread. Thanks > for the assistance though. > > Brandon D. Valentine > -- > bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu > "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message