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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:29:49 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
To:        David Thiel <dthiel@nexprise.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more fun NIS problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008081428040.310-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>
In-Reply-To: <398F520D.8119FEAB@nexprise.com>

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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, David Thiel wrote:

> I'm having an NIS problem with FBSD that I've had once before:  once NIS
> is up and running, there are wierd problems involving the root account. 
> When I su to root, a whoami simply returns '0', and using su after I'm
> root doesn't work, as su checks the username of the person running it. 

Are you able to ypcat passwd?  If so, what do you get?  If everything
looks OK with the yp* commands (including ypserv -d on the other side)
then you can probably narrow it down to a local problem.

-Paul.



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