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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


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