Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:01:41 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: David Thiel <dthiel@nexprise.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more fun NIS problems Message-ID: <20000808120141.A4746@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <398F520D.8119FEAB@nexprise.com>; from dthiel@nexprise.com on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:19:25PM -0700 References: <398F520D.8119FEAB@nexprise.com>
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 05:19:25PM -0700, 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. > Am I doing something silly? If you are distributing root's account information via NIS, then you are doing something very silly. If you are not, which is wise, have you made sure to have a local entry for root in each machines' individual passwd files? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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