From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 11:24:47 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 54B6F37B5A1 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:24:32 -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 LAA11453 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexprise.com (ws141.internal.nexprise.com [192.168.25.141]) by lgm-118a.internal.nexprise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA98291 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:33:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dthiel@nexprise.com) Message-ID: <39905014.867B8AD@nexprise.com> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:23:16 -0700 From: David Thiel Organization: Nexprise Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more fun NIS problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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