Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:23:16 -0700 From: David Thiel <dthiel@nexprise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more fun NIS problems Message-ID: <39905014.867B8AD@nexprise.com>
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I tried ypserv -d, and no suspicious output was there - all the yp* commands appear normal, the only thing I could possibly think of is when I did a ypcat passwd, the root account was in the middle of the password file instead of its usual position at the top. Would that make any difference? -david Paul Herman wrote: > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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