NIS, root access

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:15:04PM +0100, Dan Track wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Got a slight problem on my workstation. Basically when fedora boots up
> sometimes NIS doesn't get started, so when the login prompt appears I
> try to login as any user even root but the system won't let me in. The
> only way in is to reboot and hope NIS works or reboot to single user
> mode and turn of NIS. Does anyone know why I can't login in as root
> when NIS is down even though the root password in stored on my
> workstation and not in NIS.
> 
> Thanks
> Dan
Does you NID Makefile on the server limit the user_id below which NIS
does not serve the account. If so you may have the root passwd stored
on the server not the client.
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