From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 5:30: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7924E37B69A for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 05:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-72-16.netcologne.de [213.168.72.16]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20101; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:29:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e78CTnX65218; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:29:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:29:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: David Thiel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more fun NIS problems In-Reply-To: <398F520D.8119FEAB@nexprise.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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